With or without a pilot

Author(s):
Hyoung-Sik Choi (Korea Aerospace Research Institute), 
Sugchon Lee (Korea Aerospace Research Institute), 
Company: Korea Aerospace Research Institute, Korea
Published: dSPACE Magazine 2/2014, Sep 2014

Developing an optionally piloted vehicle

There are conventional aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles, and a third category in between, called optionally piloted vehicles (OPVs). These are planes that can fly with or without a pilot as the situation requires. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) is developing an OPV and testing its flight control system by running simulated fl ights in the laboratory with a test bench based on a dSPACE hardware-in-the-loop simulator.



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