Conceptual Design of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

The project aims to enable and formalize the conceptual design and optimization of the different UAV designs, including safety and reliability considerations. This achievement will contribute to the emergence of UAV in safety-critical applications that would change our daily lives like air taxiing, painting skyscrapers, urban surveillance, media coverage, logistics, deliveries, or flying ambulances. As of writing this proposal, there is no methodology in the open literature to size and evaluate various UAV concepts. Also, there is no methodology to size and evaluate UAV concepts with safety and reliability considerations. Therefore, the project’s first objective is to establish and validate a methodology and software tool to size the different UAV design concepts (fixed-wing, multicopter and VTOL fixed-wing). The second project’s objective is to include safety and reliability considerations by incorporating and optimizing redundancy measures in the evaluated concepts. The first objective will be achieved by adapting and further developing a promising design methodology and its tool based on scaling laws and multi-disciplinary optimization. This methodology originates from the student’s home laboratory and he is currently working on applying it to multicopters.

Faculty Supervisor:

Jonathan Liscouet

Student:

Partner:

Université de Toulouse (INSA Toulouse);Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

Concordia University

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