Design, Development and Testing of a Delta wing UAV

Researcher: Reduan SagorSupervisor: Dr Farbod Khoshnoud

Contents1. Personal Motivation

2. Introduction

3. Project Goal

4. Design Specifications?

5. Methodology Applied

6. Results & Discussions

7. Limitations

8. Future Recommendations

1. Personal Motivation

Photo Courtesy: British Airways Concorde

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.

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?..........................

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?

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.

6. Results & Discussions

• XFLR5 results of the selected airfoil:

• CAD models of the aircraft:

• CFD analysis of the aircraft:

• FEA analysis of the model:

MeshingTotal deformation

Boundary Condition

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.

8. Future Recommendations

• Use of:

Surveillance Camera.

Flight Data Recorder.

Landing Gear.

Traditional take-off and landing using runaway.

• Autonomous flight using ground system.

Any Questions?