Quadrotor Flight Simulation in a CFD-generated Urban Wind Field Article Swipe
Nicholas Kakavitsas
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Andrew Willis
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Ryan Jacobik
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Mesbah Uddin
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Artur Wolek
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· 2024
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.36227/techrxiv.171085159.95135995/v1
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· 2024
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.36227/techrxiv.171085159.95135995/v1
This paper presents a software pipeline that enables simulating a quadrotor’s flight in realistic urban wind fields where complex wind phenomena are common and have significant impact on vehicle dynamics. The pipeline integrates the OpenStreetMap database for obtaining real-world building geometry, the OpenFOAM computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver for computing a three-dimensional, steady, wind field, the Gazebo robotics simulation environment, and the PX4 software-in-the-loop autopilot. A 3D wind plugin is developed to interpolate a pre-computed CFD wind field at runtime during the simulation. The approach is demonstrated by comparing the flight performance of a quadrotor flying over a university campus environment with and without the wind field.
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