Design and Implementation of Flight Control System on FPGA
| International Journal of VLSI & Signal Processing |
| © 2023 by SSRG - IJVSP Journal |
| Volume 10 Issue 2 |
| Year of Publication : 2023 |
| Authors : P. Anjali, Anushka L Naik, N. S. Chinmai, P. J. Febha, S. Jamuna |
10.14445/23942584/IJVSP-V10I2P102
How to Cite?
P. Anjali, Anushka L Naik, N. S. Chinmai, P. J. Febha, S. Jamuna, "Design and Implementation of Flight Control System on FPGA," SSRG International Journal of VLSI & Signal Processing, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 12-16, 2023. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23942584/IJVSP-V10I2P102
Abstract:
A flight control system (FCS) is a major component of an aircraft. It allows the pilot to monitor the forces of flight, direction and attitude of the aircraft during flight. A flight control system regulates the necessary inputs to manipulate the control surfaces for the pilot to monitor the aircraft. They include cockpit controls, connecting linkages, aircraft engine controls, and necessary operating mechanisms. In a conventional mechanical flight control system, a system breakdown can be catastrophic as there are no other alternative backups. It is, therefore, necessary to formulate a system that is developed with a considerable amount of redundancy & fault tolerance. Thus, the main objective of this project is to design and implement a flight control system using a field programmable gate array (FPGA). The performance of the FPGA-based FCS system is better than that of the conventional microcontroller and the DSP chip-based UAV flight control system, and it has several useful applications and benefits. The entire flight control system is divided into four modules navigation control module, flight control module, sensor driver module, and Avalon bus control module.
Keywords:
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), Flight Control System (FCS), Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), GPS (Global Positioning System).
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