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Yu Gu, Guoxin Zhang, Ying Bi, Wenyue Meng, Xiaoping Ma and Wenjun Ni
Moving mass control (MMC) is considered a promising approach to regulating the attitude of an aircraft via the motion of internal moving masses. The present investigation proposes a moving mass control scheme for a high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) unm...
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Yunxiang Cui, De Yan and Zhiqiang Wan
Soaring birds can use thermal updrafts in natural environments to fly for long periods or distances. The flight strategy of soaring birds can be implemented to gliders to increase their flight time. Currently, studies on soaring flight strategies focus o...
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Elena Karpovich, Timur Kombaev, Djahid Gueraiche, Daria Evdokimova and Kirill Alexandrov
The paper presents specifications for the Long-Endurance Mars Exploration Flying Vehicle (LEMFEV), which will be used as future design input data. The specifications are based on the analysis of previous Mars missions and scientific data collected by the...
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Koki Hamajima, Kei Yasukawa, Masazumi Ueba, Hisayoshi Kanou, Munehiro Matsui, Junichi Abe, Kiyohiko Itokawa and Fumihiro Yamashita
Among several usages of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), wireless relay systems for high altitudes using fixed-wing UAVs, or high-altitude platform stations (HAPS), are some of the most promising applications. To realize the systems by making the most of ...
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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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Liu Liu, Bifeng Song, Weigang An, Xiaojun Yang and Jianlin Xuan
People have raised their expectations for UAV performance due to the widespread use of UAVs in both military and non-military settings. One of the most significant fields of research right now is how to enhance UAVs? endurance capabilities. Many birds in...
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Junwoo Lim, Seangwock Lee, Jaeyeop Chung, Youngwan Kim and Giyoung Park
Aircraft reciprocating engines have been in operation over the past 100 years, which is a testament to their high levels of reliability and stability. Compared to turbine engines, reciprocating engines are at a disadvantage when it comes to high-speed fl...
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Dioser Santos, Jeremy Rogers, Armando De Rezende and Victor Maldonado
The performance of a small reconfigurable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is evaluated, combining a multidisciplinary approach in the computational analysis of additive manufactured structures, fluid dynamics, and experiments. Reconfigurable UAVs promise c...
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Runfeng Zhang, Wendong Niu, Xu Wan, Yining Wu, Dongyang Xue and Shaoqiong Yang
Combination prediction models have gained great development in the area of information science, and are widely applied in engineering fields. The underwater glider (UG) is a new type of unmanned vehicle used in ocean observation for the advantages of lon...
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Yang Liu, Ziyuan Xu, Huafei Du and Mingyun Lv
Stratospheric airships with a solar array have demonstrated overwhelming superiority in many aspects, such as earth observation, meteorological survey, and communication relay. The solar array supplies sufficient power for the airship to be in flight for...
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