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MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 151, 2018
2017 Asia Conference on Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (ACMAE 2017)
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Article Number | 04009 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Aircraft Structure Design and Control | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201815104009 | |
Published online | 21 February 2018 |
Design of a Symmetrical Quad-rotor Biplane Tail-Sitter Aircraft without Control Surfaces and Experimental Verification
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Department of Instrument Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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School of Information Science & Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai, China
This paper presents the design of a symmetrical quad-rotor biplane tail-sitter VTOL UAV (Vertical Take-off and Landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) which is composed of four rotors and two symmetrically mounted fixed wings. This aircraft achieves high accuracy in the attitude control and smooth flight mode transition with four rotors rather than the conventional VTOL UAVs using control surfaces. The proposal of angled rotor mounting is adopted to address the issue of insufficient yaw control authority. The layout of symmetrically mounted fixed wings makes the aircraft have capability of rapid bidirectional flight mode transition to improve maneuverability. To validate the performance of the aircraft, simulation and flight experiments are both implemented. These results show that the aircraft has a rapid yaw response under condition of the stable attitude control. In comparative experiment, it is shown that the aircraft is more flexible than other similar configuration of aircrafts. This symmetrical quad-rotor biplane tail-sitter VTOL UAV will have a wide range of potential applications in the military and civilian areas due to its superior performance..
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