A REVIEW OF TACTICAL UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE DESIGN STUDIES

Abstract

In this study, a literature search was conducted on tactical unmanned aerial vehicles. First of all, it was classified as an unmanned aerial vehicle. It is mentioned about the characteristics of ZANKA-III, which is highly autonomous, passive and active morphing, aerodynamically perfect, tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (TUAV) ZANKA-III, supported by TUBITAK's 1001 Ardeb program 115M603 by TUBITAK and it is mentioned that they have superior characteristics from other tactical unmanned aerial vehicles. Not only physical properties but also the autopilot system structure, the optimization method used, and the state space model through the executive equations of the body are briefly mentioned. For this purpose longitudinal and lateral dynamics modeling of TUAVs produced in Erciyes University, Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Model Aircraft Laboratory are considered in order to obtain simulation environments. Our produced TUAV is called as ZANKA-III which has weight of 50 kg, range of around 3000 km, endurance of around 28 hour, and ceiling altitude of around 12500 m. Von-Karman turbulence modeling is used in order to model atmospheric turbulence during flight in both longitudinal and lateral simulation environments. A stochastic optimization method called as simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation.

Keywords

• Tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (TUAV),state space model,optimization

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