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- Title
Study on Improved Flight Coefficient Estimation and Trajectory Analysis of a Flying Disc through Onboard Magnetometer Measurements.
- Authors
Lee, Juhwan; Lee, Byungjin; Song, Jin Woo; Lee, Young Jae; Sung, Sangkyung
- Abstract
This paper proposes a novel and accurate method for estimating the flight coefficient of a flying disc typically operating at a high rotation rate. In particular, the proposed method introduces a new algorithm that takes advantage of magnetic data measured by a miniaturized sensor module onboard a conventional disc. Since the geomagnetic field measured by the magnetic sensor mounted on the rotating body yields a general sinusoidal waveform, a frequency domain analysis is employed in computing the rotational rate. Furthermore, on the basis of the estimated rate during a whole flight period, a yaw damping derivative coefficient is derived, which enables an accurate prediction of the disc's flight trajectory. For performance verification, both a reference rotation table test and a real flight test are performed, for which a miniaturized embedded sensor module is designed and manufactured for an onboard flight test. A reference rotation test validates the performance of the proposed method. Subsequently, a flight test, in which a simulator-based trajectory is compared with the true reference trajectory, verifies that the proposed method better predicts the flight trajectory by incorporating the estimated coefficient.
- Subjects
FLIGHT; FREQUENCY-domain analysis; FLIGHT testing; MAGNETOMETERS; MAGNETIC sensors; MAGNETIC fields
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2018, Vol 18, Issue 10, p3564
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s18103564