Preliminary design of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) UAV with steerable vertical thrust effect

Author

Ping, Julian Tan Kok ; Ban, SauKeong ; Tan, ChingSeong ; Peng, Thomas Ting Shee ; Soon, Ng Chin

Author_Institution

Centre for Vehicular Technol., Univ. Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

fYear

2010

fDate

28-30 June 2010

Firstpage

275

Lastpage

279

Abstract

This paper presents the preliminary design of an aerial vehicle testbed based on the GFS-UAV implementation, namely the “CoandaJLTCraft”. The modified GFS-UAV design uses the Coanda principle to provide lift with enough Vertical Thrust (VT) generated by the Coanda flow. The lift coefficient of the Coanda profile is investigated in our laboratory. A novel steerable design is introduced. This novel design provides an alternative for directional controls and for enhancing the flight stability. Our experiment shows that the steerable configuration is valid up to 10 m/s of Coanda surface flow speed for indoor applications.

Keywords

aerospace robotics; mobile robots; position control; remotely operated vehicles; stability; Coanda principle; CoandaJLTCraft; GFS-UAV implementation; VTOL UAV; directional controls; flight stability; steerable vertical thrust effect; unmanned aerial vehicle; vertical take-off-and-landing vehicle; Aircraft; Automotive engineering; Design engineering; Laboratories; Mechanical engineering; Propulsion; Stability; Testing; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Vehicular and wireless technologies; Coanda; UAV; Unmanned Aerial; VTOL;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics Automation and Mechatronics (RAM), 2010 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6503-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RAMECH.2010.5513179

Filename

5513179