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Design and Construction of a Quad Tilt-Rotor UAV using Servo Motor

Jin, Jae-Woo (Dep. of Electronics and Communication Eng., Korea Maritime and Ocean University)
Miwa, Masafumi (Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokushima)
Shim, Joon-Hwan (Dep. of Electronics and Communication Eng., Korea Maritime and Ocean University)

Publication Information

Journal of Engineering Education Research / v.17, no.5, 2014 , pp. 17-22 More about this Journal

Abstract

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that have been recently commercialized can largely be divided into fixed-wing aircraft and rotor aircraft by their styles and flight characteristics. Although the fixed-wing aircraft represents higher power efficiency, higher speed, longer flight distance and larger loading weight than the rotor aircraft, they have a disadvantage of requiring a space for take-off and landing. On the other hand, the rotor aircraft can implement vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) and represents various flight modes (hovering, steep bank turns and low-speed flights). But they require both precision take-off control and attitude control. In this study, we used a quad-tilt rotor UAV to combine advantages in both the fixed-wing aircraft and the rotor aircraft. The quad-tilt rotor (QTR) system was designed and constructed by adding a tilt device with a servo motor to a general quad-rotor vehicle.

Keywords

Unmanned aircraft vehicles(UAVs); Quad-tilt rotor(QTR); Tilt-rotor; VTOL; Servo motor;

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