Design of a Hybrid Detachable Amphibious Drone for Monitoring Marine Environment

Dinelli, Christopher; Fisher, Jarod; Herkenhoff, Brenden; Hassanalian, Mostafa

doi:10.2514/6.2020-3965

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“…After a method was developed for constructing this UAmV, the next major phase comprised domain preparation, discretization, and computational procedure. These phases are based on data from the third literature survey [16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. Since the authors of this current work have predominantly relied on the ANSYS Workbench tool for all kinds of computations, this third sub-section is filtered and focused only on obtaining the boundary and initial conditions relevant for the aforesaid computational set-up.…”

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“…Since the authors of this current work have predominantly relied on the ANSYS Workbench tool for all kinds of computations, this third sub-section is filtered and focused only on obtaining the boundary and initial conditions relevant for the aforesaid computational set-up. The information about the development of control volume, procedures to develop structural meshes, and procedures to attain reliable outcomes for computational hydrodynamic simulations were obtained [16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. Apart from the primary conditions, the secondary conditions provide significant support in computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations.…”

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Design and Computational Analyses of Nature Inspired Unmanned Amphibious Vehicle for Deep Sea Mining

Raja¹,

Solaiappan²,

Kumar³

et al. 2022

Minerals

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This paper presents the design calculations, implementations, and multi-engineering based computational constructions of an unmanned amphibious vehicle (UAmV) which efficiently travels underwater to detect and collect deep-sea minerals for investigations, as well as creative usage purposes. The UAmV is expected to operate at a 300 m depth from the water surface. The UAmV is deployed above the water surface near to the approximate target location and swims underwater, checking the presence of various mining, then extracts them using a unique mechanism and stores them in an inimitable fuselage location. Since this proposed UAmV survives in deep-sea regions, the design construction of this UAmV is inspired by hydrodynamic efficient design-based fish, i.e., Rhinaancylostoma. Additionally, standard analytical approaches are followed and, subsequently, the inimitable components such as wing, stabilizers, propellers, and mining storage focused fuselage are calculated. The computational analyses such as hydrodynamic investigations and vibrational investigations were carried out with the help of ANSYS Workbench. The hydrodynamic pressures at various deployment regions were estimated and thereafter the vibrational outcomes of UAmVs were captured for various lightweight materials. The computed outcomes were imposed in the analytical approach and thereby the electrical energy generations by the UAmV’s components were calculated. Finally, the hydrodynamic efficient design and best material were picked, which provided a path to further works on the execution of the focused mission. Based on the low drag generating design profile and high electrical energy induction factors, the optimizations were executed on this work, and thus the needful, as well as suitable UAmV, was finalized for targeted real-time applications.

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Design and Computational Analyses of Nature Inspired Unmanned Amphibious Vehicle for Deep Sea Mining

Raja¹,

Solaiappan²,

Kumar³

et al. 2022

Minerals

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“…Regarding the design procedure, Crouse et al [10] presented many useful aspects of a multi-domain vehicle. While some steps of the design procedure are also addressed in the literature [11], there is yet to be specified a complete, step-by-step conceptual design methodology that also integrates aspects of the multi-domain mission, such as the ingress and egress maneuvers. Therefore, in the present study, the design methodology of a BWB UAUV is presented, integrating calculations for the multi-domain needs.…”

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Conceptual design of a fixed wing hybrid UAV UUV platform

Papadopoulos

Vlachos

Yakinthos

2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng.

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In this work, the conceptual design methodology of a hybrid Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) – Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) platform is presented. As the mission complexity and the need for interoperability between different platforms grows more demanding by the day, hybrid platforms are becoming an essential solution. Hybrid UAV-UUVs can operate seamlessly and repeatedly in both the aerial and underwater environments, something that numerous animal species already execute in an optimized way. The design methodology starts with the review of the few available prototypes, creating initial design trends and continues with analytical calculations. These calculations are based on aircraft design textbooks and are modified to take into account the special characteristics of a hybrid platform, such as the means of transition between the water and the air. A Blended Wing Body (BWB) layout configuration is selected for the numerous aerodynamic advantages that it offers. The analytical calculations are then validated with the use of high fidelity CFD calculations. The results from the conceptual design phase indicate that the proposed methodology for hybrid UAV-UUV configurations provides a good design accuracy. Finally, the outcome of this methodology, which is a hybrid UAV-UUV platform is potentially the answer to the operational gap for missions that include both underwater and aerial environments.

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Electric, Amphibious and VTOL Aircraft Design, a Forgotten Art: From Conceptual Design to Powerful Future Implementation

Adesh,

Arun

2024

2024 Third International Conference on Distributed Computing and Electrical Circuits and Electronics (ICDCECE)

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Design of a Hybrid Detachable Amphibious Drone for Monitoring Marine Environment

Cited by 7 publications

References 16 publications

Design and Computational Analyses of Nature Inspired Unmanned Amphibious Vehicle for Deep Sea Mining

Design and Computational Analyses of Nature Inspired Unmanned Amphibious Vehicle for Deep Sea Mining

Conceptual design of a fixed wing hybrid UAV UUV platform

Electric, Amphibious and VTOL Aircraft Design, a Forgotten Art: From Conceptual Design to Powerful Future Implementation

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