Autonomous Flight for Small Glider Robots Based on Fuzzy Inference

Abstract

This paper focuses on the autonomous flight of a small glider robot. The authors present a steering control system with a fuzzy inference unit. The glider robot is required to passively increase the altitude by utilizing updrafts since it cannot generate the propulsion force. For this purpose, both the antecedent and consequent parts taking the human-operated steering control into account are introduced into the fuzzy inference unit. Through simulation experiments, we show that the glider robot is enabled to reach a distant destination.