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Constrained Volume Packing Of Deployable Wings For Unmanned Aircraft, Turner John Harris
Constrained Volume Packing Of Deployable Wings For Unmanned Aircraft, Turner John Harris
University of Kentucky Master's Theses
UAVs are becoming an accepted tool for sensing. The benefits of deployable wings allow smaller transportation enclosures such as soldier back packs up to large rocket launched extraterrestrial UAVs. The packing of soft inflatable wings and Hybrid inflatable with rigid section wings is being studied at the University of Kentucky. Rigid wings are volume limited while inflatable wings are mass limited. The expected optimal wing design is a hybrid approach. Previous wing designs have been packed into different configurations in an attempt to determine the optimal stowed configurations. A comparison of rigid, hybrid, and inflatable wings will be presented. Also …