TY - GEN
T1 - Design and Fabrication of a Low-Cost, Deployable, Rogallo-Wing sUAS
AU - Formica, Lia
AU - Lenze, Victoria
AU - Loughran, Andrew
AU - Jones, Thomas
AU - Miller, Simon Walter
AU - Cole, Julia A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA. All rights reserved.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - A low-cost, deployable, Rogallo-winged small uncrewed aircraft system was designed, fabricated, and flight tested. Wing design parameters were selected based on a combination of suggestions from the literature and practical concerns. Several deployment mechanisms were iteratively designed and fabricated using polymer additive manufacturing. Pitch and yaw control were accomplished through the use of a conventional empennage. Tail volume sizing methods were implemented with adjustments necessary to account for the unique configuration. Powered flight testing revealed the need for additional static margin to account for the underslung propulsion system. The final deployable system was capable of a glide lift-to-drag ratio of 4.2 at an airspeed of 24 ft/s with a stowed wing area of 0.75 ft2 for the price of a hobby-grade commercially available fixed-wing system augmented with the same avionics package.
AB - A low-cost, deployable, Rogallo-winged small uncrewed aircraft system was designed, fabricated, and flight tested. Wing design parameters were selected based on a combination of suggestions from the literature and practical concerns. Several deployment mechanisms were iteratively designed and fabricated using polymer additive manufacturing. Pitch and yaw control were accomplished through the use of a conventional empennage. Tail volume sizing methods were implemented with adjustments necessary to account for the unique configuration. Powered flight testing revealed the need for additional static margin to account for the underslung propulsion system. The final deployable system was capable of a glide lift-to-drag ratio of 4.2 at an airspeed of 24 ft/s with a stowed wing area of 0.75 ft2 for the price of a hobby-grade commercially available fixed-wing system augmented with the same avionics package.
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U2 - 10.2514/6.2023-4190
DO - 10.2514/6.2023-4190
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85200315960
SN - 9781624107047
T3 - AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition, AIAA AVIATION Forum 2023
BT - AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition, AIAA AVIATION Forum 2023
PB - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA
T2 - AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition, AIAA AVIATION Forum 2023
Y2 - 12 June 2023 through 16 June 2023
ER -