Aggressive manuevering of unmanned helicopters: Learning from human based on neural networks

Abstract

"Teaching by Showing" control of a small helicopter's aggressive maneuvering often needs inner aided controllers based on helicopter's dynamics, which is very complex to identify. In this paper, a neural network based control is proposed, based on the identification of the relationship between the pilot's control and flight states, and it is a model-free control method. Flight test is done in simulation environment based on real flight data. The results show the effectiveness of the neural network based controller for aggressive flight control. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.