Formation of the Area of Initial Conditions for Aerial Launches of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

The air launch of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) transported by an aircraft carrier is considered. It is shown that in order to perform an acceptable start with the specified initial conditions for the height and speed of the carrier, it is necessary to pre-launch the autopilot parameters, which ensures the limitation of the angular velocities of the UAV during the passage of the interference layer formed around the carrier. The adjustable parameters are the coefficients of the PID controllers in the UAV angular velocity stabilization circuits. The calculation of the required coefficients is performed by the developed algorithm based on the method of differential evolution. Test modeling of transients confirms the operability and applicability of the proposed approach. The evaluation of the results of calculating the desired coefficients of PID controllers by the differential evolution algorithm showed the possibility of significantly expanding the range of initial conditions of air launches compared with the initial conditions calculated by a human operator.

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