Development of VTOL UAS

 The objective of this project was to modify off the shelf drone to perform VTOL mission. In order to do that a conceptual design and analysis was done:

1.To develop a conceptual design of fixed wing VTOL UAV based on ready-to-fly (RTF) fixed wing UAV.

  1. To analyze the thrust performance of the fixed wing VTOL UAV in both, fixed wing and multirotor modes.

This is the flow chart for the research. In this first development, the thrust analysis was done to estimated the power required and available for the aircraft to perform VTOL. For the moment is focusing on the climbing phase. The next issue to perform is to obtain the aerodynamic derivatives in order to design the controller to perform transition.

 

This research was conducted by the help of research assistance En Mohd Fadhil Jamaludin and main researcher Dr Mastura Ab Wahid