Flight Guidance, Navigation and Control

Topic 2: Design and fabricate vertical take-off mechanism for fixed wing UAV

Student: Fadhil (2017/2018)

Objective

The main objective of this project is to design, analyse, and fabricate the mechanism for vertical take-off and landing of a fixed-wing UAV

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Scope of work

  1. To propose a design on the way to install vertical take-off components on a fixed wing UAV.
  2. To determine and analyse aerodynamic characteristics of UAV before and after modification by using ANSYS Fluent.
  3. To develop a control system for fixed wing UAV for hovering flight regime.