Development of a fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

• Main Author: Poh, Teck Keng.
• Other Authors: Lim Meng Hiot
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Computer hardware, software and systems; DRNTU::Engineering::Aeronautical engineering::Aircraft
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/53362
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In aviation, the deployment of unmanned technology in aircraft, or the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has proven its worthiness in both military and commercial purposes. In addition to basic aviation, more technological capabilities were explored and researched to maximise the advantage of unmanned flying. This project will explore the untapped potential of UAVs by developing UAV capabilities with certain degree of scalability. The capabilities explored were more options to autonomous flying and formation flying (swamp technology). This report contains information on the development of UAV prototype from aero models equipped with the mentioned capabilities and also experimental trials on integration of unmanned flying and available technologies.