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Spyridon Antoniou, Stavros Kapsalis, Pericles Panagiotou and Kyros Yakinthos
The current study investigated the effect of leading-edge slats on the longitudinal stability at high angles of attack of a Blended-Wing-Body (BWB) Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV). Using a Design of Experiments (DOE) approach and, specifically, the Taguchi me...
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Stavros Kapsalis, Chris Bliamis, Pavlos Kaparos, Pericles Panagiotou and Kyros Yakinthos
The current work investigates the effect of canard geometric characteristics on the performance of a lightweight flying wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), capable of both conventional and Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) flight. The canards are size...
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Tong Lin, Mingying Huo, Naiming Qi, Jianfeng Wang, Tianchen Wang, Haopeng Gu and Yiming Zhang
Electroaerodynamic unmanned aerial vehicles (EAD-UAVs) are innovative UAVs that use high-voltage asymmetric electrodes to ionize air molecules and Coulomb force to push these ions to produce thrust. Unlike fixed-wing and rotor UAVs, EAD-UAVs contain no m...
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Xinjian Xiang, Haibin Hu, Yi Ding, Yongping Zheng and Shanbao Wu
This study proposes a GC-YOLOv5s crack-detection network of UAVs to work out several issues, such as the low efficiency, low detection accuracy caused by shadows, occlusions and low contrast, and influences due to road noise in the classic crack-detectio...
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Hongming Cai, Zhuoran Zhang and Shuanghou Deng
Recently, ducted fan unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted considerable attention due to their potential for application in both civil and military missions. Compared with free propellers, the presence of duct can in principle decrease the flow ...
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