ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF HYBRID VTOL UAV USING MODEL-BASED SYSTEM ENGINEERING APPROACH

• Main Author: Aji Pradana, Willardi
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/76103
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

<p align="justify"> The increasing role of UAV systems in everyday lives have fueled an increasing demand for ever more robust and complex UAS design in order to cope with an ever changing mission environment. This provides a challenge in terms of development and integration of such interconnected System of Systems (SoS), with UAV being its own complex and layered system. Implementation of System Engineering (SE) in the development process enables designers and engineers to keep track of the system and subsystems along the life cycle of the product, but its document-centric nature is cumbersome and prone to error. MBSE provides an improvement by foregoing documents as the primary artifact and instead replaces it with coherent, integrated, standardized model that enable the thorough description of the system’s structure, behavior, and requirements. However, this requires interaction between the descriptive and analytical model of the system. This study aims to investigate the integration of system description for Hybrid VTOL UAV (Hybrid between Lift and Cruise flight) with analytical tool based on Energy Consumption Model under a typical full-mission scenario enhanced flight test data. The model will be made in SysML, describing the breakdown structure of the aircraft, a set of requirements to verify the model, performing calculations and simulations to estimate energy requirement for a full mission and evaluate the edaquacy of the power source to meet said requirement. Evaluation of the results and examination of the integration process have revealed several qualitative benefits to the interconnectedness between the descriptive and analytical model within SysML.