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Configurational Aspects and Vehicle Specific Investigations for Future Unmanned Cargo Aircraft

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the work done to examine in more detail how three configurations, namely double tail boom fixed wing aircraft, box wing aircraft and gyrocopter as proposed in a pre-study (Hasan YJ, Sachs F (2021) Performance-based preliminary design and selection of aircraft configurations for un-manned cargo operations. In: Dauer JC (ed) Automated low-altitude air delivery - towards autonomous cargo transportation with drones. Springer, Heidelberg) are suited for the task described in the project Automated Low Altitude Air Delivery (ALAADy). It is investigated which specific properties and features of each configuration are rather contributing or contravening for the ALAADy purpose. These investigations comprise, above all, the conduction of wind tunnel tests and a flight experiment. In order to identify and investigate inherent safety features 6-degree-of-freedom flight dynamic simulations of the three configurations are set up. To provide sufficiently precise simulation models many details of the configurations and the according power train variations are created and examined. For the gyrocopter wind tunnel tests of a scaled gyrocopter demonstrator are conducted as well.

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Metadata
Title
Configurational Aspects and Vehicle Specific Investigations for Future Unmanned Cargo Aircraft
Author
Falk Sachs
Copyright Year
2022
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83144-8_6

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