Sizing and performance analysis of albatross-inspired tilt-wing unmanned air vehicle

Sanchez, Gerardo; Salazar, R.; Hassanalian, Mostafa; Abdelkefi, Abdessattar

doi:10.2514/6.2018-1445

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“…The tilt-rotor and tilt-wing designs are the two most common structures. On the one hand, both can maintain flight stability during the transition from hovering to forward flight, but on the other hand, the most important differences between them are aerodynamic drag and the required power of the rotor in the take-off and transition process [3][4][5]. A type of tilt-rotor aircraft, the V-22 Osprey is currently in service in the military as a practical aircraft due to its advantages [4].…”

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Study of Modeling and Optimal Take-Off Scheme for a Novel Tilt-Rotor UAV

Zhang

Wang

2022

Sensors

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The optimal trajectory planning for a novel tilt-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in different take-off schemes was studied. A novel tilt-rotor UAV that possesses characteristics of both tilt-rotors and a blended wing body is introduced. The aerodynamic modeling of the rotor based on blade element momentum theory (BEMT) is established. An analytical method for determining the taking-off envelope of tilt angle versus airspeed is presented. A novel takeoff–tilting scheme, namely tilting take-off (TTO), is developed, and its optimal trajectory is designed based on the direct collocation method. Parameters such as the rotor thrust, tilt angle of rotor and angle of attack are chosen as control variables, and the forward velocity, vertical velocity and altitude are selected as state variables. The time and the energy consumption are considered in the performance optimization indexes. The optimal trajectories of the TTO scheme and other conventional schemes including vertical take-off (VTO) and short take-off (STO) are compared and analyzed. Simulation results indicate that the TTO scheme consumes 47 percent less time and 75 percent less energy than the VTO scheme. Moreover, with minor differences in time and energy consumption compared to the STO scheme, but without the need for sliding distance, TTO is the optimal take-off scheme to satisfy the flight constraints of a novel tilt-rotor UAV.

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