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Unmmaned blimps

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Jesús Gonzalo
Last Updated: 12 February 2021
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With their ability to hover for days and to hold more payloads than many drones, aerostats and airships become good choices for surveillance in multiple scenarios.

Looking for these advantages, low-cost unmanned aerostatic platforms have been developed focused on fire monitoring and security applications.

Two blimps have been studied, designed, built and operated. They are currently available with payload capacities from 10 to 100 kg and a helium volume of 300 and 660 m3 respectively. The onboard autopilot allows a high degree of autonomy.

Development tasks were completed and they are available for researchers and other operational users to validate payloads, improve performances and serve commercial applications.

The Group leads HAPPIEST, the European Space Agency study for the development of stratospheric platforms for telecommunications and Earth observation.

Control of unmanned air vehicles

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Jesús Gonzalo
Last Updated: 12 February 2021
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Modern designs for robust control of unmanned air vehicles include commercial components and in-house developments to embed real-time algorithms, data fusion tasks and management of redundancies, reducing the workload of the onboard processors. The software includes nested loops with growing frequencies, a selection of filters for the sensor data and a variety of control algorithms.

HADA-PLATINO Project

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Last Updated: 05 February 2018
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Convertible aircraft

 

Modular airplane for educational purposes

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Jesús Gonzalo
Last Updated: 12 February 2021
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Provided that unmanned vehicles do not need a conventional fuselage, many flight configurations are possible. Besides, active control even allows more combinations.

The airplane designed and developed in the laboratory can be mounted in the flight field in a vast number of shapes and configurations. Just by attaching a variety of modules to each other and with the help of configuration software to assess the aerodynamic feasibility and other centring and stability considerations, different airplanes can be immediately obtained and flied. This is especially useful for heterogeneous missions or educational purposes.

HAPS Prototypes

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Jesús Gonzalo
Last Updated: 13 February 2018
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