Prediction of static stability in tandem wing unmanned aerial vehicle
Sugandi T.S.a, Nathana, Subrata S.K.a, Arifianto O.a, Moelyadi M.A.a
a Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Faculty of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
Abstract
© Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. The development of tube-launched folding wing UAV has become current interest and accordingly static stability analysis of this UAV would be necessary. The objective of this paper is to conduct a study to evaluate static stability of tube launched tandem wing UAV at its cruise condition. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) using ANSYS CFX is conducted to acquire forces and moments acting on the UAV at various angles of attack and sideslip angles. Furthermore, static stability parameters such as C m , C L , C l , C n , and C Y are determined from the forces and moments obtained previously. The result indicates that the ITB tandem wing UAV complies the static stability criteria at its cruise condition.
Author keywords
Angles of attack,ANSYS-CFX,Folding wings,Sideslip angles,Static stability,Static stability analysis,Tandem wings
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Funding details
This work is a collaboration between Aksantara UAV Research and Development ITB, that provided research assistance and laboratory, with Faculty of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ITB. The UAV is funded by ITB through its research program P3MI 2018 ITB in the 2nd year of development.