Development of the Test Platform for Rotary Wing Unmanned Air Vehicle

Abstract

In this study, a new test platform was developed for rotary wing unmanned air vehicle (UAV) with the multirotors. This platform basically includes three different sized circles. Before the flight of UAV, all tests such as yaw, pitch, roll, elevation, etc., are done by the proposed test platform, so the problem or crash in flight of UAV will be prevented. The developed test platform is more superior to the existing test platforms. In this work, the detailed developing process of test platform is presented and some pre-flight tests done by this test platform are represented for the rotary wing UAV with six rotors.

Keywords

• UAV,Test Platform,Rotary Wing

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