无人直升机总体设计方法论

论文：无人直升机总体设计方法论
作者：A. Rathore and A.K. Sinha

UAVs are emerging as the next generation of airborne
scouting assets due to their ability to penetrate deep into
enemy airspace, plod on designated target areas,
detecting mortal weapons and conducting damage
appraisals. The major developments of UAVs thus far
have been fixed-wing focussed. The missions envisaged
for UAVs require a rotary-wing component for missions
beyond the scope of fixed-wing UAVs. Rotary-wing
UAVs also referred as “Vertical Takeoff UAVs”
(VTUAVs) are presently in advanced research and
development stages, to address the operational gaps of
UAV deployment. To meet the mission requirements,
state-of-the-art mission systems and autonomous
systems, on-board fixed wing UAVs need to be
investigated for application on VTUAVs.
In this paper, the life-cycle of rotary-wing development
is investigated from an independent viewpoint for the
development of a modified architecture for VTUAVs
design. The resulting architecture provides avenues of
automation in the design process of rotary wing. Later,
an advanced design framework is proposed which
comprises of ‘system-of-system’ methodologies to
develop an automated VTUAV design methodology.