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Low-Cost Flight Simulator with Possibility of Modeling of Flight Controls Failures

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Advanced Solutions in Diagnostics and Fault Tolerant Control (DPS 2017)

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The goal of this paper is to present a development of a low cost flight simulator, that allows to simulate flight controls failures. Cessna 172 has been chosen as an example of a general aviation aircraft and the flight model has been implemented in Simulink. The model allows for easy integration of an experimental autopilot, using various strategies. Aerodynamic coefficients have been calculated using software called DATCOM. Such approach reduces greatly the cost of development. An approximate inertia matrix has been calculated for proper rigid body dynamics, and a model of engine and propeller is based on actual data from producer. In the end evaluation has been performed, indicating that modeled airplane behaves in a proper way.

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  1. Department of Decision Systems (ETI), Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland

    Piotr Moczulski & Mariusz Domżalski

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  1. Faculty of Mechatronics, Institute of Automatic Control and Robotics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

    Jan M. Kościelny

  2. Faculty of Mechatronics, Institute of Automatic Control and Robotics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

    Michał Syfert

  3. Faculty of Mechatronics, Institute of Automatic Control and Robotics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

    Anna Sztyber

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Moczulski, P., Domżalski, M. (2018). Low-Cost Flight Simulator with Possibility of Modeling of Flight Controls Failures. In: Kościelny, J., Syfert, M., Sztyber, A. (eds) Advanced Solutions in Diagnostics and Fault Tolerant Control. DPS 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 635. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64474-5_19

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