Adaptive wing and fuselage structure for UAVs

• Main Author: Truong, Ngoc Quoc Thang.
• Other Authors: K Radhakrishnan
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/54090
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In recent years, inflated structure is being widely applied for adaptive UAVs due to its exceptional characteristics, including weight-saving, survivability after collision and easily configured. These wonderful characteristics enable the UAVs to be contractible/deployable, warping and morphing wing. However, there are still serious short-comings with these inflated wings, including the ultra-high compressed-air pressure, difficulty in wing-profile shaping and unreliable. Hence this project proposes a new design that uses Planar Kagome lattice to reinforce the core air-beam.