Design, manufacturing, and flight testing of a fixed wing micro air vehicle with Zimmerman planform

Hassanalian, Mostafa; Abdelkefi, Abdessattar

doi:10.1007/s11012-016-0475-2

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“…The velocity and steeper angle of air flowing over the fixed wings controls the lift produced. Fixed wing drones require a higher initial speed and the thrust to load ratio of less than 1 to initiate a flight [24,25]. If fixed wing and Multirotor are compared for a same amount of payload, fixed-wing drones are more comfortable with less power requirement and thrust loading of less than 1.…”

Section: Based On Aerodynamicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Classification, Applications and Challenges: A Review

Singhal¹,

Bansod²,

Mathew³

2018

Preprint

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In past few years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or drones has been a hot topic encompassing technology, security issues, rules and regulations globally due to its remarkable advancements and uses in remote sensing and photogrammetry applications. This review paper highlights the evolution and development of UAV, classification and comparison of UAVs along with Hardware and software design challenges with diverse capabilities in civil and military applications. Further, safety and security issues with drones, existing regulations and guidelines to fly the drone, limitations and possible solutions have also been discussed.

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Section: Based On Aerodynamicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Classification, Applications and Challenges: A Review

Singhal¹,

Bansod²,

Mathew³

2018

Preprint

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“…After performing the sizing process and aerodynamic analysis that led to the determination of the geometry and dimensions of wings and other physical parameters (such as, flapping frequency, upstroke and downstroke flapping angle), as well as the calculation of the aerodynamic forces (such as, the lift, drag, and thrust forces) [4,[49][50][51], the actuation mechanism design process is then started. The placement of the actuation mechanism step in flapping wing design process is shown in Figure 2.…”

Section: Flapping Wing Mechanism Design Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Improved Hybrid Actuation Mechanisms for Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles: Analytical and Experimental Investigations

Hassanalian

Abdelkefi

2019

Drones

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A new strategy is proposed in order to effectively design the components of actuation mechanisms for flapping wing micro air vehicles. To this end, the merits and drawbacks of some existing types of conventional flapping actuation mechanisms are first discussed qualitatively. Second, the relationships between the design of flapping wing actuation mechanism and the entrance requirements including the upstroke and downstroke angles and flapping frequency are determined. The effects of the components of the actuation mechanism on the kinematic and kinetic parameters are investigated. It is shown that there are optimum values for different parameters in order to design an efficient mechanism. Considering the optimized features for an actuation mechanism, the design, analysis, and fabrication of a new hybrid actuation mechanism for FWMAV named "Thunder I" with fourteen components consisting of two six-bar mechanisms are performed. The results show that this designed hybrid actuation mechanism has high symmetrical flapping motion with hinged connections for all components. The proposed methodology for the modeling and fabrication of Thunder I's actuation mechanism can be utilized as guidelines to design efficient FWMAVs actuation mechanisms.Drones 2019, 3, 73 2 of 21 amplification. This mechanism could provide the hovering capability for a small size flapping wing NAV. As for flapping wing at PAV scale, Wood et al. [22] have developed modern flapping wings which use piezoelectric actuators to generate flapping motion. Selecting the appropriate actuator is considered as an important part for designing effective flapping wing. Depending on the type of the system, different actuators can be used to perform the mission including electric motors, piezoelectric elements, solenoids, and Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) wires [23][24][25][26][27].Research on flapping wing MAVs has led to a variety of actuation mechanisms which are designed for flapping motion. These actuation mechanisms are four-bar, five-bar, and six-bar mechanisms. As for the four-bar actuation mechanism, five types have been used, as shown in Figure 1 [28-30].Drones 2019, 3, x FOR PEER REVIEW 2 of 20 mechanism for motion amplification. This mechanism could provide the hovering capability for a small size flapping wing NAV. As for flapping wing at PAV scale, Wood et al. [22] have developed modern flapping wings which use piezoelectric actuators to generate flapping motion. Selecting the appropriate actuator is considered as an important part for designing effective flapping wing. Depending on the type of the system, different actuators can be used to perform the mission including electric motors, piezoelectric elements, solenoids, and Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) wires [23][24][25][26][27].Research on flapping wing MAVs has led to a variety of actuation mechanisms which are designed for flapping motion. These actuation mechanisms are four-bar, five-bar, and six-bar mechanisms. As for the four-bar actuation mechanism, five types have been used, as shown in Figure 1 [2...

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“…UAV drones are larger drones with more powerful engines that can fly for thousands of kilometers [13,17] . Depending on their dimensions and configurations, they can operate in open-air or confined spaces then the size and the type of installed equipment differed consequently [18] . Various cameras and other equipments can be mounted on them to assist with image acquisition or sensing other signals in different environments.…”

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Loader and tester swarming drones for cellular phone network loading and field test: non-stochastic particle swarm optimization

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Cellular network operators have problems to test their network without affecting their user experience. Testing network performance in a loaded situation is a challenge for the network operator because network performance differs when it has more load on the radio access part. Therefore, in this paper, deploying swarming drones is proposed to load the cellular network and scan/test the network performance more realistically. Besides, manual swarming drone navigation is not efficient enough to detect problematic regions. Hence, particle swarm optimization is proposed to be deployed on swarming drone to find the regions where there are performance issues. Swarming drone communications helps to deploy the particle swarm optimization (PSO) method on them. Loading and testing swarm separation help to have almost non-stochastic received signal level as an objective function. Moreover, there are some situations that more than one network parameter should be used to find a problematic region in the cellular network. It is also proposed to apply multi-objective PSO to find more multi-parameter network optimization at the same time.Cellular networks have been growing rapidly over the last few decades. This technology is exceptionally beloved these days because people can be connected as they move around anyplace. Wireless communication was developed even before cellular networks, but radio communication always suffers from resource limitation (frequency spectrum as the main resource). Resource limitation was the main motivation to propose resource reuse in cellular networks [1] . For example, if a frequency band is used in a certain cell in the cellular network to cover a particular area, it also can be used in another cell which is farther in the distance from the first one. The idea of resource reuse helps to increase the number of users being serviced. This idea of resource reuse is the main difference between cellular network technology and other radio networks. However, this adds to the complexity of fine-tuning of the network to achieve high-performance cells. The reason is that radio interference can decrease the quality of service in these networks. First-generation cellular networks started in the 1980s as analog radio communication. Later on, the 2G network was commercially launched around the

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Design, manufacturing, and flight testing of a fixed wing micro air vehicle with Zimmerman planform

Cited by 67 publications

References 20 publications

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Classification, Applications and Challenges: A Review

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Classification, Applications and Challenges: A Review

Towards Improved Hybrid Actuation Mechanisms for Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles: Analytical and Experimental Investigations

Loader and tester swarming drones for cellular phone network loading and field test: non-stochastic particle swarm optimization

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