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An Unconventional Unmanned Autonomous Blimp: Design, Modeling and Simulation

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In this paper, we present the design and simulation of an unconventional unmanned autonomous blimp. The dynamic model of the tri-ellipsoid blimp is built with mechanism analysis method. Based on dynamic modeling of the blimp, a PID controller against the disturbance during autonomous flight is designed. Simulation results show that the controller is valid with optimal control parameters.

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  1. Intelligent Control Laboratory, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Yi Song, Siqiang Yang, Jiaying Tan, Yan Huang & Qining Wang

  2. School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China

    Jingeng Mai

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  1. Institute of Systems, Information Technologies and Nanotechnologies, Fukuoka, Japan

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  2. College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, 1-1-1 Noji-higashi, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan

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  3. Graduate School of Mathematics, Kyushu University, Japan

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Song, Y., Mai, J., Yang, S., Tan, J., Huang, Y., Wang, Q. (2014). An Unconventional Unmanned Autonomous Blimp: Design, Modeling and Simulation. In: Tanaka, S., Hasegawa, K., Xu, R., Sakamoto, N., Turner, S.J. (eds) AsiaSim 2014. AsiaSim 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 474. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45289-9_31

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