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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 103 - Seattle - February 2009
Agenda Location	9 SUBCOMMITTEE E – FLIGHT, PROPULSION, AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEMS 9.1 System Identification, Simulation Development, Control Law Development and Flight Test Experience with the MQ-8B FireScout Vertical Take-off Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV)
Title	System Identification, Simulation Development, Control Law Development and Flight Test Experience with the MQ-8B FireScout Vertical Take-off Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV)
Presenter	Ron Prentice
Affiliation	Northrop Grumman
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Abstract	This presentation describes the control system development of the MQ-8B Fire Scout autonomous helicopter. It includes a discussion of the system identification process and some details on implementing the identification output into a six degree of freedom simulation. A description of the Inner and Outer loop control laws is also presented. Finally, some flight test results are presented from the flight test program, including a short video of the successful shipboard landing aboard the USS Nashville in January of 2006.