The Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) is developing an innovative tiltrotor aircraft for surveying the condition of pipelines and collecting air samples above them, the university's press service reported.
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A tiltrotor is an aircraft that can hover in the air and fly in helicopter and airplane modes. This allows it to be used in the oil and gas industry for pipeline monitoring.
The peculiarity of the tiltrotor is the rotary engines that switch from a vertical position to a horizontal one. At this moment, due to the rotation of the rotor blades, the risk of losing stability or falling of the aircraft increases, which we want to minimize.
To improve the safety of takeoff, landing, and hovering of the tiltrotor, a system based on artificial intelligence is used.
On the stand, where real working conditions are simulated, the tiltrotor is suspended on light cables with fixed tension. Each cable is coupled with a strain gauge, which transmits data to the Arduino platform, where values are recorded. In parallel, the onboard controller collects data from the engines.
A flight controller is provided to stabilize the tiltrotor. It collects data from the aircraft's engines and transmits it for processing by a neural network. Specialists plan to start testing the algorithm on the primary prototype of the tiltrotor in the MAI wind tunnel during this month.
Earlier, www1.ru reported that the Supercam SX350 unmanned tiltrotor with an increased flight range was presented in the UAE.
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