Aircraft modeling and simulation have become increasingly important in the areas of pilot training, safety and aircraft design, especially for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). A userriendly, easily expandable, nonlinear six degree-ofreedom aircraft simulator for the Xipiter X-2C Xawk UAV was created to address these issues. The simulator will allow pilots to have an opportunity to train and gain experience in flying the aircraft even before it leaves the ground. In addition, it will allow for design modifications or new aircraft designs to be evaluated before time and money are spent on their implementation. This work can also serve as the basis for the development of control systems for the aircraft, such as a control augmentation system or autopilot.

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2017-04-03T19:47:14Z No. of bitstreams: 1 AntonioPericlesBonfimSaraivaDeOliveira_DISSERT.pdf: 17560753 bytes, checksum: 51b3d3c86c26db7e30f346b8d46e49f0 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-04-05T22:11:52Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 AntonioPericlesBonfimSaraivaDeOliveira_DISSERT.pdf: 17560753 bytes, checksum: 51b3d3c86c26db7e30f346b8d46e49f0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-05T22:11:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AntonioPericlesBonfimSaraivaDeOliveira_DISSERT.pdf: 17560753 bytes, checksum: 51b3d3c86c26db7e30f346b8d46e49f0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-13 / Prop?e-se a cria??o de um controle neural (neurocontrolador) baseado na aprendiza-gem supervisionada, com uma rede neural artificial (RNA), sem a modelagem por espa?ode estados, utilizando o Flightgear como simulador e ambientes de testes integrado comm?dulos de coleta de dados e controle. Diversas arquiteturas da RNA foram testadas afim de que as mesma tivesse a efic?cia pretendida nos diversos procedimentos (decola-gem, pairagem, deslocamento e pouso). Testes com as RNA treinadas foram realizadosat? que fosse encontrada uma pudesse gerar as respostas necess?rias atendendo aos requi-sitos de efici?ncia e estabilidade necess?rios ao controle do VANT.