Design and analysis of unmanned aerial vehicle for long flighted and high gliding stability

Commercialized Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for disaster management has overpriced for up to RM3,14M (USD 750K) and overall UAV flight time, in general, is between 15-30 minutes, while for each management requires a longer mission time between 2-6 hours and sometimes in severe weather conditions. T...

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Main Author: Rozailani Iberahim (Author)
Corporate Author: Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin . Faculty of Innovative Design and Technology
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
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505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Results and discussion -- 6. Conclusions and future works 
520 |a Commercialized Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for disaster management has overpriced for up to RM3,14M (USD 750K) and overall UAV flight time, in general, is between 15-30 minutes, while for each management requires a longer mission time between 2-6 hours and sometimes in severe weather conditions. Therefore, this study was aimed to develop a low-cost UAV, that cost lower than commercial UAV such as Raven (USD 173K) and Shadow 200 (USD 750K), able to fly for long distance and time. The development of this UAV also takes into account the ease of maintenance and cost for repair work. The material for body and wing are from Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) with a tensile strength of 88 psi. The tail was fabricated using plywood to provide stability to the UAV. EPS was selected due to lower cost compared to other materials such as fiberglass, carbon fiber, epoxy, Kevlar and wooden balsa. Polymer Lithium battery (LiPo 3S - 11.1 volts) was used in the UAV flight test. Simulation analysis was conducted using SolidWorks and SolidThinking software to analyze the performance and stability of UAV. The virtual wind tunnel test was carried out with an air density of 1.225 kg/m3 and wind speed of 50 m/s. The wing was enforced with a lightweight aluminum bar to strengthen its structure as the UAV wing built with a long glade appearance that allows longer flight time with only one fan (propeller). UAV was equipped with a camera which was used to collect the images under different disaster conditions. The test of friction force ratio with friction known as the drag coefficient against time, UAV can withstand drag up to 200 N during the test period of 200 second. Thus, proving that the was found able to withstand high frictional force. Test flight showed that UAV can fly in the winds of 70 knots at Pasir Puteh in January 2016 without experiencing any damage. With the permission permitted by the Royal Malaysian Air Force which is within 45 minutes, the UAV can fly at a height of 1.5 km and the flight is 26 km. Due to low-cost EPS material, any injuries to the body and wings can be fixed easily with low maintenance cost. The developed UAV successfully demonstrated its capability to collect images under the different disaster conditions tested. In conclusion, this research successfully developed a low-cost UAV, capable of flying long distances, for an extended period and collect images under different disaster conditions. It is anticipated that the developed UAV could not only be used for disaster management but also used for a variety of public uses such as mapping, monitoring of criminal activities, environment monitoring, borders control and so forth. 
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650 0 |a Drone aircraft 
650 0 |a Drone aircraft   |x Control systems 
650 0 |a Flight control 
650 0 |a Guidance systems (Flight) 
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