Flights of a Multirotor UAS with Structural Faults: Failures on Composite Propeller(s)

Data acquired from several flights of a custom-fabricated Hexacopter Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) with composite structure (carbon fiber arms and central hub) and composite (carbon fiber) propellers are described in this article. The Hexacopter was assembled from a commercially available kit (Tarot...

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Published in:Data (Basel) 2019-09, Vol.4 (3), p.128
Main Authors: Gururajan, Srikanth, Mitchell, Kyle, Ebel, William
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accelerometers
Aircraft
Aviation
Carbon fibers
Composite structures
Control algorithms
Data acquisition
Datasets
Drones
Experiments
Failure
failures in composite materials
Flight control systems
Flight tests
hexacopter
Manual control
Pixhawk
Propellers
Sensors
UAS fault tolerance
UAS flight tests
UAS structural failures
Unmanned aerial vehicles
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Summary:Data acquired from several flights of a custom-fabricated Hexacopter Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) with composite structure (carbon fiber arms and central hub) and composite (carbon fiber) propellers are described in this article. The Hexacopter was assembled from a commercially available kit (Tarot 690) and flown in manual and autonomous modes. Takeoffs and landings were under manual control and the bulk of the flight tests was conducted with the Hexacopter in a “position hold” mode. All flights were flown within the UAS flight cage at Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology at Saint Louis University for approximately 5 min each. Several failure conditions (different types, artificially induced) on the composite (carbon fiber) propellers were tested, including failures on up to two propellers. The dataset described in this article contains flight data from the onboard flight controller (Pixhawk) as well as three accelerometers, each with three axes, mounted on the arms of the Hexacopter UAS. The data are included as supplemental material.
ISSN:2306-5729
2306-5729
DOI:10.3390/data4030128