Methods and automatic procedure for the flight testing of a MAV

Abstract

[EN] This work of thesis falls under two established research elds of the Department of Aerospace Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, namely Flight Mechanics and Flight Testing. The overall intent of the project is the development of a platform based on a model airplane and low-cost instrumentation hard- ware, capable of ying - with an increasing degree of automa- tion - typical Flight Testing maneuvers, and the collection use- ful ight data in support of didactic activities in the aforemen- tioned areas. The activities were carried out both in parallel and as a prosecution of a Parametric Identi cation work that has been done on the same aircraft. The objectives of this work of thesis were aimed to developing a methodology for the evaluation of a glider model performance using Flight Testing techniques.