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A Study of Evolvable Hardware Adaptive Oscillators for Augmentation of Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicle Altitude Control

Venugopal Chengappa, Bharath
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1278968118

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2010, Master of Science in Computer Engineering (MSCE), Wright State University, Computer Engineering.
The control of insect-sized flapping-wing micro air vehicles is fraught with difficulties. Even when adequate control laws are known, limits on computational precision and floating-point processing can render it difficult to field implementations that provide sufficiently accurate and precise vehicle body placement and pose. Augmentation of an existing altitude controller with an Evolvable Adaptive Hardware (EAH) oscillator has been proposed as a means for an on-board altitude controller to correct control precision and accuracy difficulties during normal flight. This thesis examines a range of setting of the internal learning algorithms for the EAH oscillator and provides empirical evidence about which setting are most optimal for the control of a flapping-wing micro air vehicle (FW-MAV) based on the Harvard MicroFly. Implications for future multi-degree of freedom control are also considered.
John C. Gallagher, PhD (Advisor)
Michael Raymer, PhD (Committee Member)
Mateen M. Rizki, PhD (Committee Member)
90 p.
Computer Science
Mutation Rate; FW-MAV; Minipop; Wing; Minipop Algorithm; e¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ects; Population Size

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  • Venugopal Chengappa, B. (2010). A Study of Evolvable Hardware Adaptive Oscillators for Augmentation of Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicle Altitude Control [Master's thesis, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1278968118

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Venugopal Chengappa, Bharath. A Study of Evolvable Hardware Adaptive Oscillators for Augmentation of Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicle Altitude Control. 2010. Wright State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1278968118.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Venugopal Chengappa, Bharath. "A Study of Evolvable Hardware Adaptive Oscillators for Augmentation of Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicle Altitude Control." Master's thesis, Wright State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1278968118

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