Design and Development of Autonomous Amphibious Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and UAV Mountable Water Sampling Devices for Water Based Applications

Alam, M; Manoharan, Dinesh

doi:10.4271/2016-01-2004

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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.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…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.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to the literature survey [41], the historical relationship between planform area of vertical stabilizer and overall weight of the UAmV was determined, which is given in Equation (18). The imposed relationships were derived by considering remotely aerial piloted vehicles.…”

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confidence: 99%

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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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