The lifetime issue due to structural failure in the advanced multi-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is one of the prime factors towards the reduction of UAV’s usages. The scope of this work is to safeguard the hexacopter components that are working in adverse conditions, in which retractable landing gear plays a vital role in the safety production. Implementation of retractable landing gear provides coverage to the hexacopter propellers in the flight mode also helps hexacopter to achieve a successful landing. The design construction of hexacopter and their subordinate components are fixed mass method, in which initially 1.5 kg is assumed as the overall weight with the inclusion of payload and retractable landing gear. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations of with and without retractable landing gear implemented in hexacopter have been carried out to study the aerodynamic effect of retractable implementation. In this work, CATIA used as a modeling tool for both cases and Ansys Workbench used as CFD solver tool.
Conceptual Design and Optimization of Flexible Landing Gear for Tilt-Hexacopter Using CFD
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
International Conference on Unmanned Aerial System in Geomatics ; 2019 ; Roorkee, India April 06, 2019 - April 07, 2019
2020-02-23
24 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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