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192 CHAPTER 7 FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM DESIGN: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION<br />

Yaw Rate (deg/s)<br />

50<br />

40<br />

30<br />

20<br />

N p<br />

= 8<br />

N p<br />

= 10<br />

N p<br />

= 12<br />

Reference<br />

10<br />

0<br />

−10<br />

−20<br />

0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350<br />

Sample (k)<br />

Tail Rotor Collective Pitch<br />

0.5<br />

0<br />

−0.5<br />

0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350<br />

Sample (k)<br />

Figure 7.4<br />

channel.<br />

<strong>The</strong> NNAPC response comparison with r w = 1.5 and various N p values for the yaw<br />

rate feedback controller and the gyro sensor unit can be removed from the unmanned<br />

helicopter system since the autopilot system has utilised an IMU unit as the main<br />

attitude measurement and the NNAPC algorithm for the automatic yaw rate control.<br />

However, the gyro sensor and the commercial yaw rate feedback controller are kept in<br />

the unmanned helicopter system design to facilitate the manual control <strong>of</strong> the helicopter.<br />

Incorporating the commercial yaw rate feedback controller into the AFCS introduces<br />

a new control signal that increases the existing control input calculation from the<br />

NNAPC controller. Experience shows that this kind <strong>of</strong> controller arrangement makes<br />

the unmanned helicopter turn aggressively to the right when the yaw servomechanism<br />

is released in the beginning <strong>of</strong> the experiment. <strong>The</strong> sudden movement happens due to<br />

the added control signal value from the conventional yaw rate feedback controller that<br />

makes the actual tail rotor input movement ˆδ ped surge to the minimum deflection value<br />

(−1) in short period <strong>of</strong> time. In several runs, the unmanned helicopter could not even<br />

maintain the orientation in the yaw channel due to the tendency <strong>of</strong> the actual control<br />

input to get stuck at the minimum deflection value (−1). To prevent the helicopter

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