Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering (한국정밀공학회지)

Korean Society for Precision Engineering (한국정밀공학회)
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Design and Fabrication of Coaxial Rotorcraft-typed Micro Air Vehicle for Indoor Surveillance and Reconnaissance

실내감시정찰용 동축반전 헬리콥터형 미세비행체 설계 및 제작

  • Byun, Young-Seop (Department of Aerospace Engineering, Pusan National Univ.) ;
  • Shin, Dong-Hwan (Pragmatic Applied Robot Institute, Daegu Gyeoungbuk Institute of Science & Technology) ;
  • An, Jin-Ung (Pragmatic Applied Robot Institute, Daegu Gyeoungbuk Institute of Science & Technology) ;
  • Song, Woo-Jin (Industrial Liaison Innovation Center, Pusan National Univ.) ;
  • Kim, Jeong (Department of Aerospace Engineering, Pusan National Univ.) ;
  • Kang, Beom-Soo (Department of Aerospace Engineering, Pusan National Univ.)
  • 변영섭 (부산대학교 항공우주공학과) ;
  • 신동환 (대구경북과학기술원 실용로봇연구소) ;
  • 안진웅 (대구경북과학기술원 실용로봇연구소) ;
  • 송우진 (부산대학교 부품소재산학협력연구소) ;
  • 김정 (부산대학교 항공우주공학과) ;
  • 강범수 (부산대학교 항공우주공학과)
  • Received : 2011.01.11
  • Accepted : 2011.09.05
  • Published : 2011.12.01
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Abstract

This paper is focused on the procedure of the development of a micro air vehicle which has vertical take-off and landing capability for indoor reconnaissance mission. Trade studies on mission feasibility led to the proposal of a coaxial rotorcraft configuration as the platform. The survey to provide a guide for preliminary design were conducted based on commercial off-the-shelf platform, and the rotor performance was estimated by the simple momentum theory. To determine the initial size of the micro air vehicle, the modified conventional fuel balance method was applied to adopt for electric powered vehicle, and the sizing problem was optimized with the sequential quadratic programming method using MATLAB. The designed rotor blades were fabricated with high strength carbon composite material and integrated with the platform. The developed coaxial rotorcraft micro air vehicle shows stable handling quality with manual flight test in indoor situation.

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