Solar UAV : design, fabrication and testing of a test wing section and integration with solar cells

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have seen an unprecedented growth in recent years in both the military and the civilian applications domains. As such, this has led to heightened interest and research activities in unmanned technology at the academic level. This report shows the conceptual design of a...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Pang, Yida.
مؤلفون آخرون: Ng Heong Wah
التنسيق: Final Year Project
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منشور في: 2012
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-497202023-03-04T19:36:31Z Solar UAV : design, fabrication and testing of a test wing section and integration with solar cells Pang, Yida. Ng Heong Wah School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DRNTU::Engineering::Aeronautical engineering Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have seen an unprecedented growth in recent years in both the military and the civilian applications domains. As such, this has led to heightened interest and research activities in unmanned technology at the academic level. This report shows the conceptual design of a solar powered UAV that has a wingspan of 15m with a takeoff mass of not more than 60kg. The conceptual idea is adopted from a powered glider that is designed to have minimum drag for any given amount of lift. Minimum drag is achieved through a long and narrow fuselage section and long and thin wings. With such an aircraft design, the aircraft is able to have efficient climbing rates and can glide long distances at a high speed with a minimum loss of height in between. The idea is to use minimal energy to propel the solar UAV to stay airborne. Bachelor of Engineering (Aerospace Engineering) 2012-05-23T07:13:54Z 2012-05-23T07:13:54Z 2012 2012 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/49720 en Nanyang Technological University 81 p. application/pdf
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Pang, Yida.
Solar UAV : design, fabrication and testing of a test wing section and integration with solar cells
description Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have seen an unprecedented growth in recent years in both the military and the civilian applications domains. As such, this has led to heightened interest and research activities in unmanned technology at the academic level. This report shows the conceptual design of a solar powered UAV that has a wingspan of 15m with a takeoff mass of not more than 60kg. The conceptual idea is adopted from a powered glider that is designed to have minimum drag for any given amount of lift. Minimum drag is achieved through a long and narrow fuselage section and long and thin wings. With such an aircraft design, the aircraft is able to have efficient climbing rates and can glide long distances at a high speed with a minimum loss of height in between. The idea is to use minimal energy to propel the solar UAV to stay airborne.
author2 Ng Heong Wah
author_facet Ng Heong Wah
Pang, Yida.
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author Pang, Yida.
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title Solar UAV : design, fabrication and testing of a test wing section and integration with solar cells
title_short Solar UAV : design, fabrication and testing of a test wing section and integration with solar cells
title_full Solar UAV : design, fabrication and testing of a test wing section and integration with solar cells
title_fullStr Solar UAV : design, fabrication and testing of a test wing section and integration with solar cells
title_full_unstemmed Solar UAV : design, fabrication and testing of a test wing section and integration with solar cells
title_sort solar uav : design, fabrication and testing of a test wing section and integration with solar cells
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