Development and Flight Validation of an Autonomous Mono-Wing UAS

This paper describes the development and flight validation of the Samarai Demonstrator Air Vehicle (DAV). The DAV is a fully autonomous rotating single-wing unmanned aerial system (UAS) with vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capability, full authority flight controls and rotating frame sensing, and guidance and navigation. It was developed as a demonstrator for a nano-class UAS at Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories (LM ATL).