A Novel Approach for Missing Combat Support Aircraft Search Acceleration using VTOL UAS

Authors

Mohammed Ba Zuhair, Kazan National Research Techincal UniversityFollow
Wisam Yousef, Research Assistant, Kazan National Research Technical University - KAI, Kazan, RussiaFollow
Issam Samara, PhD researcher, Don State Technical University, Rostov-Na-Donu, RussiaFollow
Vladislav Varsegov, Assoc. Professor, Kazan National Research Technical University - KAI, Kazan, RussiaFollow

Abstract

In this paper, an approach to accelerate search operations for a missing combat support aircraft using a portable waterproof autonomous vertical takeoff and landing unmanned aerial system called “flying locator beacon” is described. The latter is connected with both flight data and cockpit voice recorders with a parallel bus and may be deployed from the empennage during extreme emergency scenarios, which is detected when few flight parameters are overrun leading to an air crash stimulating behavior. Landing of the flying locator beacon strictly takes place on global latitude and longitude coordinates only of integer values enabling significant minimization of search time and cost.

Scholarly Commons Citation

Ba Zuhair, M., Yousef, W., Samara, I., & Varsegov, V. (2018). A Novel Approach for Missing Combat Support Aircraft Search Acceleration using VTOL UAS. International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace, 5(4). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15394/ijaaa.2018.1269