Simulated Wind Effects on Lightweight UAV - 2011
Project Objectives:
- Simulate Aircraft Flight Characteristics
- Simulate Wind
- Simulate GPS location drift and introduced error
- Develop appropriate navigation functions to compensate for errors and deviations in the flight path
- Test scenarios that would be difficult to monitor in a real world test
- Develop new functionality without risking the aircraft
The moving white circle is the aircraft and the red circle is the target area. Target areas are currently picked at random. The dots left behind the aircraft is the history trail, each dot is about 5 seconds. Wind effects the turning and the velocity of the aircraft causing deviations in the flight path. The navigation system in the onboard computer attempts to compensate for the introduced error.
User Navigation:
- Click and drag mouse on applet to change viewing angle
UAV PROJECT 
This is my senior design project for Electrical Engineering at UNM. The page will be update as the project progresses.