Conceptual design of UAV airframes using a generic geometry service
Conceptual design of UAV airframes using a generic geometry service
With the increased freedom in layout selection possible when designing an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) concept (compared, for example, to the relatively constrained and mature world of commercial airliner design), comes the significant challenge of building a geometry engine that will provide the variety of airframe models demanded by the highly global nature of the design search. In order to enable multidisciplinary trade-off studies, both an external surface and an internal structure are required – we use a single, generic model to supply these, in the form of a parametric geometry residing in a commercial
CAD tool. In addition to discussing the challenges of offering a truly flexible geometry service, we also delve into the UAV-specific issues of the initial sizing of the model. A wealth of statistical data provides one of the traditional handholds for this step in manned aircraft conceptual design – we discuss the
applicability of such statistical approaches to their unmanned counterparts.
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Sóbester, András
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Keane, A.J.
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Scanlan, James
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Bressloff, Neil W.
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2005
Sóbester, András
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Keane, A.J.
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Scanlan, James
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Bressloff, Neil W.
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Sóbester, András, Keane, A.J., Scanlan, James and Bressloff, Neil W.
(2005)
Conceptual design of UAV airframes using a generic geometry service.
In Infotech@Aerospace Online Proceedings.
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
10 pp
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Abstract
With the increased freedom in layout selection possible when designing an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) concept (compared, for example, to the relatively constrained and mature world of commercial airliner design), comes the significant challenge of building a geometry engine that will provide the variety of airframe models demanded by the highly global nature of the design search. In order to enable multidisciplinary trade-off studies, both an external surface and an internal structure are required – we use a single, generic model to supply these, in the form of a parametric geometry residing in a commercial
CAD tool. In addition to discussing the challenges of offering a truly flexible geometry service, we also delve into the UAV-specific issues of the initial sizing of the model. A wealth of statistical data provides one of the traditional handholds for this step in manned aircraft conceptual design – we discuss the
applicability of such statistical approaches to their unmanned counterparts.
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Published date: 2005
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Infotech@Aerospace, Arlington, Virginia, 2005-09-26 - 2005-09-29
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