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What campus are you from?
Daytona Beach
Authors' Class Standing
Owen Read, Senior Donald Tuten, Percy Solomon, Annebelle Stube, Kiana Arroyo
Lead Presenter's Name
Owen Read
Faculty Mentor Name
Alberto Mello
Abstract
SkyNavigator is a concept unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a fixed wing and lighter-than-air flight mode capability. The proposed air vehicle will fulfill a market need for airspace domain awareness for Level 3 and below UAV traffic by providing real-time radar data to clients via Starlink. The proposed design will leverage existing mobile hydrogen production technology to achieve sustained flight operations at high altitude without interfering with commercial airspace operations. Also, the UAV is intended to be cheap and flexible, providing users with air traffic data at any prescribed location. The purpose of this research is to design the structural characteristics of the wing structure and other adjacent components to comply with FAR Part 23. Included parts will include wing spars, stringers, ribs, skin, wing-center pylon mount, center pylon spars, wing strut and wing strut components. After the components have been preliminarily designed, selected fatigue critical locations will go through damage tolerance analysis for the selected lifetime of the aircraft, varying between it normal and limit loads.
Did this research project receive funding support from the Office of Undergraduate Research.
No
SkyNavigator Structural Design
SkyNavigator is a concept unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a fixed wing and lighter-than-air flight mode capability. The proposed air vehicle will fulfill a market need for airspace domain awareness for Level 3 and below UAV traffic by providing real-time radar data to clients via Starlink. The proposed design will leverage existing mobile hydrogen production technology to achieve sustained flight operations at high altitude without interfering with commercial airspace operations. Also, the UAV is intended to be cheap and flexible, providing users with air traffic data at any prescribed location. The purpose of this research is to design the structural characteristics of the wing structure and other adjacent components to comply with FAR Part 23. Included parts will include wing spars, stringers, ribs, skin, wing-center pylon mount, center pylon spars, wing strut and wing strut components. After the components have been preliminarily designed, selected fatigue critical locations will go through damage tolerance analysis for the selected lifetime of the aircraft, varying between it normal and limit loads.