http://www.iaeme.com/IJCIET/index.asp 896 editor@iaeme.com International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology (IJCIET) Volume 9, Issue 3, March 2018, pp. 896–905, Article ID: IJCIET_09_03_089 Available online at http://www.iaeme.com/ijciet/issues.asp?JType=IJCIET&VType=9&IType=3 ISSN Print: 0976-6308 and ISSN Online: 0976-6316 © IAEME Publication Scopus Indexed TOWARD DEVELOPMENT OF CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR AIRSHIPS UNIFIED TO THEIR TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND ACTUATORS Fedorenko Roman, Gurenko Boris, Konovalov Georgy, Devitt Dmitry Southern Federal University, Bolshaya Sadovaya ul. 105 / 42, Rostov-on-Don, 344006, Russia ABSTRACT The goal of this work is to give a review of task and approaches of development of control systems for airships, unified to their technical characteristics and actuators in format and limits of an article. Starting with unified control system structure, universal mathematical model of airship is given, external forces discussed as far as unified actuators mathematical model is given. Review of airship actuators was done and control allocation methods are discussed. Finally, technical details of modular control and actuation system for small blimps of non-conventional form is presented. Keywords: airship, blimp, control, actuator, mathematical model, control allocation, unified control system. Cite this Article: Fedorenko Roman, Gurenko Boris, Konovalov Georgy, Devitt Dmitry, Toward Development of Control Systems for Airships Unified to Their Technical Characteristics and Actuators, International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology, 9(3), 2018, pp. 896–905. http://www.iaeme.com/IJCIET/issues.asp?JType=IJCIET&VType=9&IType=3 1. INTRODUCTION Advantages of airships possibility of long flight and hovering in areas with weak infrastructure, are realized best in automatic unmanned mode. Consequently, the development of methods for the design of automatic control systems for airships is actively conducted all over the world. At the present time, the requirements for airship control systems are increasing with regard to the requirement of their wide configuration, which is related to the market demand in a unified control system applicable to airships of various designs. Separate control systems for each design of airships development appears to be economically inefficient, since airships are produced by various companies in small series. Thus, developing of methods for designing control systems for airships challenges are on the one hand using most advanced control approaches (nonlinear model based), and, on the other hand, unification to technical characteristics of airships and design of their actuators.