Academic Journal of Engineering and Technology Science, 2023, 6(3); doi: 10.25236/AJETS.2023.060302.
Zhixing Zhang1, Haoran Shi1, Lilue Wen1, Xiaoqing Zhu2
1Beijing 21st Century International School, Beijing, China
2Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
In recent years, UAVs have been widely used in various fields. According to our team's preliminary research, the current UAVs can be generally divided into fixed wing and rotor wing. These two categories of UAVs have their own advantages and disadvantages. Modern UAVs have some problems, such as fixed wing needs runway to take off, poor mobility, rotor wing UAV has low energy efficiency, although it has the ability of vertical take-off and landing, the load is low. Since the Internet had promoted the transportation of cargoes, it seems pretty urgent to deal with issues of sending goods to desolate locations like remote mountain areas or deserts. This paper discusses the possibility of combining fixed-wing and rotorcraft UAVs. The design of this paper is to follow the model of the fixed-wing aircraft, and the wing is equipped with upward oars to provide upward lift. In this way we can have both the speed of a fixed-wing UAV vertical take-off and landing capability of a rotorcraft UAV. This makes the UAV more energy efficient and has higher endurance and speed with the same load. The payload is higher for the same endurance.
fixed-wing aircraft, rotorcrafts, express delivery
Zhixing Zhang, Haoran Shi, Lilue Wen, Xiaoqing Zhu. A Novel UAV Integrated with Fixed-Wings Aircrafts and Rotorcrafts. Academic Journal of Engineering and Technology Science (2023) Vol. 6, Issue 3: 9-14. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJETS.2023.060302.
[1] Qing Bo, & Wang Lei. (2002). A review of UAV development. Flying missile(8), 7.
[2] He Xiangzhi, Wang Rongchun, & Luo Qianqian. (2010). Design and simulation verification of longitudinal control law for fixed wing UAV. Science, Technology and Engineering(9), 5.
[3] Minnis, P., & Smith, W. L. (1998). Cloud and radiative fields derived from goes8 during success and the arm-uav spring 1996 flight series. Geophysical Research Letters, 25(8), 1113-1116.
[4] Zarco-Tejada, P. J., V González-Dugo, & Berni, J. (2012). Fluorescence, temperature and narrow-band indices acquired from a uav platform for water stress detection using a micro-hyperspectral imager and a thermal camera. Remote Sensing of Environment, 117(none), 322-337.
[5] Darren, T., Arko, L., & Christopher, W. (2012). An automated technique for generating georectified mosaics from ultra-high resolution unmanned aerial vehicle (uav) imagery, based on structure from motion (sfm) point clouds. Remote Sensing, 4(5), 1392-1410.
[6] Niethammer, U., James, M. R., Rothmund, S., Travelletti, J., & Joswig, M. (2012). Uav-based remote sensing of the super-sauze landslide: evaluation and results. Engineering Geology, 128(none), 2-11.
[7] Yue Jilong, Zhang Qingjie, & Zhu Huayong. (2010). Brief analysis on the research progress and key technologies of micro four-rotor UAV. Electro-optics and control, 17(10), 7.
[8] Zhang Jing, Zhang Hua, Liu Heng, & Huo Jianwen. (2014).Fuzzy PID control of miniature quadrotor UAV. Ordnance automation, 33(6), 5.
[9] Ji Jiangtao, Hu Feifei, He Zhitao, Du Xinwu, Liu JIanjun, & Zhu Zhihua, etc. (2013). Application of four-rotor UAV in farmland information acquisition. Agricultural mechanization research, 35(2), 4.
[10] Zhan Lei, He Renqing, Xie Yang, & Long Yan. (2011). Intelligent navigation system based on miniature quadrotor UAV. Electronic measurement technique, 34(6), 4.
[11] Liu Cong, Wei Zhiqiang, Han Hongrong, & Shan Zezhong. (2021). Aerodynamic response analysis of UAV rotor hover state under crosswind action*. Chinese Journal of Safety Science, 31(9), 106-112.
[12] Guo Naihuan, & Xiong Jingjing. (2022). Design of neural adaptive sliding mode control for a common axis octorotor UAV. Electro-optics and control, 29(2), 93-98.
[13] Chen Dengfeng, Di Jianqin, Zhang Wen, & Liu Guo. (2020). Dynamics modeling and simulation of tailless flapping wing UAV. Computer measurement and control, 28(6), 5.
[14] Zhang Songling, Song Guoxiang, & Wang Fang. (2017). Bionic flapping wing reconnaissance UAV based on remote monitoring and gps positioning. Electronic world(11), 2.
[15] Li Man. (2020). Hanwang's new technology bionic flapping wing aircraft "The first bird" was unveiled. Scientific and technological innovation and brand(11), 3.
[16] Liu Meng. (2019). Development of piezoelectric two-chip material driving circuit for small flapping wing UAV. (Doctoral dissertation, Jilin University).
[17] Wu Saifei, Wang Xinhua, Jia Sen, Wang Shuo, & Yang Mingchao. (2016). Automatic landing guidance system of fixed wing UAV based on infrared vision. Electronic measurement technique(3), 5.
[18] Beard, R., Kingston, D., Quigley, M., Snyder, D., Christiansen, R., Johnson, W. & Goodrich, M. (2005). Autonomous vehicle technologies for small fixed-wing UAVs. Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication, 2(1), 92-108.
[19] Li Jian. (2022). Vertical takeoff and landing fixed wing UAV. Shaanxi coal, 41(6), 6.
[20] Li Yang, Pan Yifeng, & Zhang Jing. (2020). Application of light and small sar in emergency surveying and mapping based on fixed wing UAV platform. Geology and ore mapping, 3(5), 83-84.