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http://dx.doi.org/10.5139/JKSAS.2013.41.9.708

Empennage Design of Solar-Electric Powered High Altitude Long Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle  

Hwang, Seung-Jae (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
Lee, Yung-Gyo (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
Kim, Cheol-Wan (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
Ahn, Seok-Min (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences / v.41, no.9, 2013 , pp. 708-713 More about this Journal
Abstract
KARI is developing a solar-electric powered HALE UAV(EAV-3). For demonstrating the technology, EAV-2H, a down-scaled version of EAV-3, is developed and after EAV-2H's initial flight test, the directional stability and control need to be improved. Thus, the vertical tail and rudder of EAV-2H are redesigned with Advanced Aircraft Analysis(AAA). Size of the rudder is increased from mean chord ratio of rudder to vertical tail, $C_r/C_v(%)=30$ to $C_r/C_v(%)=60$ and size of the vertical tail is reduced 15%. As a result, the directional control to side wind($v_1$) is improved to sideslip angle, ${\beta}(deg)=25^{\circ}$ and $v_1(m/sec)=3.54$. Also, variation of airplane side force coefficient with sideslip angle ($C_{y_{\beta}}$) and variation of airplane side force coefficient with dimensionless rate of change of yaw rate ($C_{y_r}$) are reduced 15% and 22%, respectively to minimize the effect of side wind. The empennage design of EAV-2H is verified with flight tests and applied to design of KARI's solar-electric-powered EAV-3.
Keywords
HALE UAV; Directional Stability; Directional Control; Empennage Design;
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