The document summarizes a student project to design, develop, and test a delta wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The goals of the project were to design and manufacture a delta wing UAV for surveillance and data acquisition. Various software tools were used for the design including XFLR5 for airfoil analysis, ANSYS Fluent for computational fluid dynamics simulations of wing flow, and ANSYS Workbench for structural analysis. Results of the analyses are presented along with limitations and recommendations for future work, such as adding a surveillance camera, flight data recorder, and autonomous flight capabilities.
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Oral Presentation
1. Design, Development and Testing of a Delta wing UAV
Researcher: Reduan Sagor
Supervisor: Dr Farbod Khoshnoud
4. 2. Introduction
UAV applications:
Archaeological surveying.
Environmental/meteorology- climate study, storm monitoring etc.
Military- surveillance, air strikes.
Security- crowd monitoring and control.
Law enforcement- traffic monitoring, search and rescue operations.
6. 3. Project Goal
The aim of this project was to design and manufacture a Delta wing
UAV for surveillance and data acquisition purposes.
Was the goal achieved?..........................
7. 4. Design Specifications?
What data can/should be collected?
Is the wing going to be a flat plate?
Will the UAV have a fuselage?
How about a surveillance camera?
3D printed UAV sounds good! Hmm..
Autonomous flight possible?
8. 5. Methodology Applied
Weight Estimation: Market Research.
Airfoil Analysis: XFLR5; 2D analysis software; was intended to be used for 3D analysis of
the wing; plots of important parameters in one display interface.
Wing Analysis: ANSYS Fluent; 3D flow simulation over the wing; manual plotting of
parameters needed.
CAD Design: CATIA V5 & SOLIDWORKS 2014; SOLIDWORKS used to generate models for
Laser cutting machine.
Structural Analysis: ANSYS Workbench; FEA analysis of the structure for suitable
material selection.
9. 6. Results & Discussions
XFLR5 results of the selected airfoil:
12. FEA analysis of the model:
Meshing
Total deformation
Boundary Condition
13. 7. Limitations
XFLR5 was not used for 3D wing analysis.
No previous experience of:
3D wing analysis using ANSYS CFD.
Using SOLIDWORKS 2014.
FEA analysis of aircraft structure.
Limited budget:
Flight Data Recorder (FDR) was not bought.
14. 8. Future Recommendations
Use of:
Surveillance Camera.
Flight Data Recorder.
Landing Gear.
Traditional take-off and landing using runaway.
Autonomous flight using ground system.