Unmanned cruciform winged glider dynamics and control

Abstract

Tha paper focuses on the problems of unmanned cruciform winged glider dynamics and control in autonomous flight conditions, and studies the wing aspect ratio effect on its flight performance. The winged glider control structure in the longitudinal and lateral axes is proposed. We carried out a comparative analysis of the ballistic flight ranges of models of different configurations, as well as the flight ranges of models of different configurations in the operating conditions of the control system of the proposed structure. As a result, the structure of the unmanned winged glider targeting system is proposed. The targeting system in the longitudinal axis, unlike the samples used in currently operating models, consists of two subsystems responsible for the unmanned winged glider best range gliding at the first flight phase and the direct aimpoint guidance at the second, i.e. final, flight stage