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Magdalena Peciak, Wojciech Skarka, Krzysztof Mateja and Maik Gude
A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) is a type of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that allows for flight in harsh weather for surveillance and access to remote areas. VTOL can be performed without a runway. As such, VOTL UAVs are used in areas where ther...
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Huiling Li and Kun Liu
In order to reduce the dependence on fossil fuels, the concept of distributed electric propulsion (DEP) has been introduced. At present, there are a few studies on the small electric propulsion engines of DEP vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) UAVs. Ac...
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Stavros Kapsalis, Chris Bliamis, Pavlos Kaparos, Pericles Panagiotou and Kyros Yakinthos
The current work investigates the effect of canard geometric characteristics on the performance of a lightweight flying wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), capable of both conventional and Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) flight. The canards are size...
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Vladimir Beliaev, Nadezhda Kunicina, Anastasija Ziravecka, Martins Bisenieks, Roberts Grants and Antons Patlins
This article represents and compares two control systems for a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV): a sliding proportional?integral?derivative (PID) controller and an adaptive L1 controller. The goal is to design a high-perf...
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Jiahao Guo and Zhou Zhou
The distributed propulsion system applied to the vertical take-off and landing aircraft must maintain the high performance in both hover and cruise flight. The gap of the power unit has an adverse effect on the distributed ducted fan system, especially i...
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Gesang Nugroho, Galih Zuliardiansyah and Azhar Aulia Rasyiddin
A Vertical Take-Off and Landing-Plane (VTOL-Plane) is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that combines multirotor and fixed-wing configurations. It has a good cruise range compared to a VTOL vehicle. Furthermore, it can take-off and land vertically. This t...
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Benshan Liu, Yongsheng Gao, Liang Gao, Junming Zhang, Yanhe Zhu, Xizhe Zang and Jie Zhao
Turbojet engines have a slow response and require mechanical assistance to perform vertical take-offs and landings. In this paper, we propose a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft that contains one-dimensional thrust vectoring nozzle modules to...
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Jae-Hyun An, Do-Youn Kwon, Kwon-Su Jeon, Maxim Tyan and Jae-Woo Lee
A critical drawback of battery-powered eVTOL UAVs is their limited range and endurance, and this drawback could be solved by using a combination of hydrogen fuel cells and batteries. The objective of this paper is to develop a sizing methodology for the ...
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Xinglu Xia, Dongli Ma, Liang Zhang, Xing?an Liu and Keran Cong
With the rapid development of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft, the blade design of a propeller suitable for VTOL aircraft with a wide range of operating conditions has become a challenging and popular task. This paper proposes a multi-object...
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Daniel Aláez, Xabier Olaz, Manuel Prieto, Pablo Porcellinis and Jesús Villadangos
With the increasing popularity of vertical take-off and landing unmanned aerial vehicles (VTOL UAVs), a new problem arises: pilot training. Most conventional pilot training simulators are designed for full-scale aircrafts, while most UAV simulators are j...
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