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AuToNomouS SoARING TEChNIquES FoR AppLICATIoN To SmALL SCALE uNmANNED GLIDERS Aerospace Engineering CLASS AME 420A/422A SpoNSoR Dr. Ricardo Sanfelice Dr. Hermann Fasel SpoNSoR mENToR/ADVISoR Ricardo Sanfelice Hermann Fasel pRoJECT mENToR Ricardo Sanfelice Hermann Fasel TEAm mEmBERS Nikolas Kaplan (AE/Applied Math) Christopher Grusenmeyer (AE/ME) Daniel Jones (AE) AE=Aerospace Engineering ME=Mechanical Engineering TEAm AERo-02: pRoJECT SummARY Soaring is an action that can be readily seen in nature. Birds have long been known to stay aloft by using the naturally occurring lift sources generated in the environment. These sources, such as thermals and terrain fluctuations, create a region of updrafting air which affords a natural increase in the lift produced by wings. Utilizing these environmental lift sources offers major technical advantages. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are limited in range only by their power source; whether that may be battery or fuel, the UAV will eventually need to land to recharge this source. Due to limited payload constraints UAVs often are implemented in short-range and low-endurance missions. These constraints can be relaxed significantly if the UAV is capable of autonomously extracting this energy from the environment. Accomplishing this task requires advanced control algorithms which are capable of executing decision-making strategies to cope with the uncertain variability of the environment. This project addresses the need for this system as well as experimentally show its application via computer aided simulation and radio-controlled model flight testing using an autopilot on board the aircraft. 19
20 AmERICAN INSTITuTE oF AERoNAuTICS AND ASTRoNAuTICS: FAST AERIAL RECoNNAISSANCE (FAR) uAV Aerospace Engineering CLASS AME 420A/422A SpoNSoR UA AIAA SpoNSoR mENToR/ADVISoR AIAA Executive Board pRoJECT mENToR Doug May TEAm mEmBERS Ryan Crompton (AE) Kevin Schwab (AE) Lijun Shan (AE) Chris Wellons (AE) Alex Yang (AE) AE = Aerospace Engineering TEAm AERo-03: pRoJECT SummARY The goal of the FAR project is to create a single affordable aerial surveillance package that combines the speed of a rocket and the maneuverability of an airplane. The FAR-UAV team is responsible for designing and building the UAV that will be deployed from the FAR-LV rocket. In order to fit inside of the rocket, the UAV was designed to collapse inside the payload bay of the rocket and then unfold after being deployed. Once deployed, the UAV transmits a live video feed and telemetry data back to a ground station at the launch site. The ground station monitors and records all system parameters and displays the video feed. The UAV is able to fly semiautonomously or under the control of a pilot based at the ground station. An electric propulsion system allows the UAV to fly to multiple observation locations or loiter for long periods of time before returning to the ground station. The UAV and LV teams presented the FAR concept at the AIAA Region VI Student Paper Conference on March 29th-April 1st in Seattle, Washington. The teams will also compete in the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association’s 7th Annual IREC competition on June 21-23, 2012.
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