Recovery of Fixed-wing UAVs on Ships Using Arrest Mechanism - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Recovery of Fixed-wing UAVs on Ships Using Arrest Mechanism Suspended Between Two Multi-rotors Mads Bornebusch This project has received funding from the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 642153 Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Outline • Motivation • Existing systems • Netcatch • Operation scenario • Simulation • Linecatch • Practical challenges • Future work Norwegian University of Science and Technology 2

Motivation • Fixed wing UAV ship operations – Long range – Heavy payload – Challenging to land the UAV Norwegian University of Science and Technology 3

Existing systems • Landing in net Source: http://rep13.lsts.pt/en/blog/sanity-tests-and-wavy-first-trial Norwegian University of Science and Technology 4

Existing systems • Landing in net • VTOL Source: http://www.top-enggroup.com/images/pigeon-V_01.jpg Norwegian University of Science and Technology 5

Existing systems • Landing in net • VTOL • ScanEagle Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY1Y9LBATHo Norwegian University of Science and Technology 6

Existing systems • Landing in net • VTOL • ScanEagle • Darpa Sidearm Source: https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2017-02-06 Norwegian University of Science and Technology 7

Existing systems • Landing in net • VTOL • ScanEagle • Darpa Sidearm • ZipLine Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AZF1TTDdEM Norwegian University of Science and Technology 8

Netcatch Norwegian University of Science and Technology 9

Netcatch By Kristian Klausen, Thor I. Fossen and Tor Arne Johansen Norwegian University of Science and Technology 10

Operation scenario Norwegian University of Science and Technology 11

Operation scenario Norwegian University of Science and Technology 12

Operation scenario Norwegian University of Science and Technology 13

Simulation Norwegian University of Science and Technology 14

Simulation Norwegian University of Science and Technology 15

Linecatch Norwegian University of Science and Technology 16

Linecatch Norwegian University of Science and Technology 17

Linecatch Norwegian University of Science and Technology 18

Linecatch Figures by Aksel Haukanes Norwegian University of Science and Technology 19

Practical challenges • Tuning of formation controllers • Time lag of RTKGPS • Telemetry link Norwegian University of Science and Technology 20

Future work • Automatic takeoff and landing of multirotors • Development and test • Up-scale to be able to catch X8 Norwegian University of Science and Technology 21