A Self-Guided Platforms for an Automation of Construction and Assembly Work Involving the Use of Helicopter

The paper contains principals of creating of proposed by the authors a so-called universal platform — a relatively small, autonomous device, which is fixed directly to a load. It has to operate in complex with the helicopter and other lifting mechanisms (crane, balloon etc.), and provides in automatic mode a highly accurate installation of loads during construction and assembly work. The laboratory model ot the platform and requirements to its separate blocks are described. The paper contains also a detailed description of specially developed platform control algorithm and principles of device operating in complex with helicopter (as the most complicated version of assembly works). Results of computer simulation confirm the possibility of creating of described device. The paper contains a few proposals on the platform industrial application.