Mechanism Modeling and Analysis of a Small Unmanned Vehicles Using Vortex Lattice Method

Abstract

For a certain type of small unmanned aerial vehicles (SUAV), using the vortex lattice method (VLM) estimated the aerodynamic derivatives, establishing linear small-perturbation equations based on level and non-sideslipping flight. Analyzed the static stability and mode characteristics based on the dimensionless derivative and matlab simulation. Early in the design, by mechanism modeling and performance analysis for the UAV through pneumatic calculations could get a lot of valuable reference data of the UAV. This has some practical significance for system performance analysis and flight control system design.