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Wind Tunnel Test for the Propeller Performance of the High Altitude UAV

고고도 무인기용 프로펠러 성능특성 풍동시험

  • Received : 2017.05.11
  • Accepted : 2018.01.17
  • Published : 2018.03.01

Abstract

Propeller performance measurement system for high altitude UAV was designed and applied to the wind tunnel test for 2 propeller models with a diameter around 1 m. Mechanical power of the propeller was directly measured by using the torque sensor installed on the rotating axis. The thrust of whole operation body including the propeller was measured by thrust road cell. The guide rail system was suggested to reduce the weight influence of operation body on the thrust road cell. The influence of each measured variables on the aerodynamic coefficients was studied with the repeatability and uncertainty analysis. This analysis result shows that the accuracies of the road cell and the wind velocity were major factors for the thrust coefficient. Propeller performance with typical RPM was measured with various wind speeds and the test results was summarized by performance coefficients for 5 different RPM.

고고도 무인기용 프로펠러의 추력 및 토크를 측정하기 위한 시험장치를 고안하였으며, 직경 1 m급 2개의 모델에 대해 성능시험을 수행하였다. 기계적인 동력을 측정하기 위해 프로펠러 회전축에 토크센서를 설치하였으며, 작은 추력을 정밀하게 측정하기 위해 프로펠러 및 구동부 전체를 지지하는 가이드레일 시스템을 적용하였다. 반복성시험 분석 및 불확도 분석을 통해 프로펠러 성능시험에 영향을 미치는 인자들을 고찰하였다. 불확도 분석결과는 추력 로드셀의 정밀도와 시험부 풍속을 결정하는 측정인자의 정밀도가 유사한 정도로 프로펠러 성능시험에 영향을 주고 있음을 나타내고 있다. 특정 RPM 조건에서 풍속을 변경시켜가며 프로펠러의 성능을 측정한 후, 5개의 서로 다른 RPM 조건에 대한 측정결과를 프로펠러 성능계수로 나타내었다.

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