Print Email Facebook Twitter Dual-axis tilting rotor quad-plane design, simulation, flight and performance comparison with a conventional quad-plane design Title Dual-axis tilting rotor quad-plane design, simulation, flight and performance comparison with a conventional quad-plane design Author Mancinelli, A. (TU Delft Control & Simulation) Smeur, E.J.J. (TU Delft Control & Simulation) Remes, B.D.W. (TU Delft Control & Simulation) de Croon, G.C.H.E. (TU Delft Control & Simulation) Date 2022 Abstract In the last few decades, the UAV research has been focusing on hybrid vehicles with Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) capabilities. Opposed to copters, hybrid vehicles are highly influenced by wind disturbances. This paper presents a novel quad-plane design that uses four dual-axis tilting rotors to enhance the wind rejection capability of a conventional quad-plane vehicle. After the non-linear mathematical model derivation and the actuator identification, the performance of the vehicle is addressed and compared to a conventional quad-plane in simulation, showing a factor 3.4 improvement in linear acceleration reaction time and a reduction of the gust induced displacement of 80%. Free-flight wind tunnel experiments confirmed the simulation outcome and extended the vehicle wind rejection capabilities behavior also to the lateral gust scenario. Subject Hybrid MAVsQuad-planeTilting rotorsUAVVTOLWind disturbance rejection capability To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c3e6bf6f-2feb-4a47-b2ed-7e41db6c3d74 DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUAS54217.2022.9836063 Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Embargo date 2023-07-01 ISBN 978-1-6654-0593-5 Source 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2022 Event 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2022, 2022-06-21 → 2022-06-24, Dubrovnik, Croatia Series 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2022 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2022 A. Mancinelli, E.J.J. Smeur, B.D.W. Remes, G.C.H.E. de Croon Files PDF Dual_axis_tilting_rotor_q ... design.pdf 4.54 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:c3e6bf6f-2feb-4a47-b2ed-7e41db6c3d74/datastream/OBJ/view