Abstract: International audience; In this paper, we address the problem of guidance and control of a small-scaled helicopter (Benzin Acrobatic from Vario TM with a 1.8 m diameter rotor) equipped with only low- cost sensors. These sensors are an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), a GPS, and a barometer, which represent a total cost of USD 3000 including one PC board and one micro-controller). By contrast to other experiments reported in the literature, we do not rely on any accurate IMU or GPS systems which costs are, separately, largely above the mentioned...
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Control engineering
Simulation