PROCEDURES FOR MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES | ||||
The International Conference on Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering | ||||
Article 52, Volume 15, 15th International Conference on Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering., May 2012, Page 1-12 PDF (460.05 K) | ||||
Document Type: Original Article | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/amme.2012.36972 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
A. S. Elharouny1; A. M. Youssef2; M. Y. Zakaria2; M. M. Abdel-Hameed3 | ||||
1M. Sc. Student, Dept. of Mechatronics, Faulty of Eng., Ain Shams Univ., Cairo, Egypt. | ||||
2Egyptian Armed Forces. | ||||
3Professor, Dept. of Mechatronics, Faulty of Eng., Ain Shams Univ., Cairo, Egypt. | ||||
Abstract | ||||
ABSTRACT In the past few years, the unmanned air vehicle (UAV) has found diverse applications for both civil and military missions. To achieve the stated mission, the vehicle needs to have a flight control system. For designing the control system, the flight control engineers must first develop a dynamic aircraft model and verify its accuracy. Dynamic characteristics of an aircraft are normally described in terms of its stability and control derivative values. These values are determined either experimentally; using flight tests or wind tunnel, or mathematically using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The experimental approach is generally very accurate, but time consuming and expensive. The CFD method takes lots of CPU time and provides less precision than the wind tunnel testing. In this paper, USAF Digital DATCOM computer program is used to provide estimation of aerodynamic stability and control characteristics. Even though DATCOM provides less precision than CFD and wind tunnel tests, it works much more efficiently by reducing considerable computing time and design cost. Stability and control coefficients and derivatives obtained from DATCOM can be used to calculate the coefficients of state-space matrices. The resulting linear model can then be used for control design tasks. This paper discusses the step by step procedure for obtaining mathematical models for small UAVs. This procedure is then applied for modeling a remote controlled UAV called "Sky Raider Mach 1". | ||||
Keywords | ||||
UAV; DATCOM; modeling; PROFILI | ||||
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