@article{article_1823768, title={Design and Development of a Ducted-Fan UAV for Agricultural Purposes}, journal={Ege Üniversitesi Ulaştırma Yönetimi Araştırmaları Dergisi}, volume={2}, pages={85–111}, year={2025}, author={Ketme, Ferudun Efe}, keywords={İHA, Kanallı Fan, Pervane Tasarımı, ANSYS, Simscape}, abstract={As in many military and civilian areas, the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is increasing in agricultural applications. The configuration of the UAV to be used in these applications is selected by taking into consideration features such as efficiency, payload capacity, and maneuverability. This study aims to design and develop a ducted-fan UAV for agricultural applications such as plant health monitoring. Common UAV designs like the quadcopter used in agriculture often suffer from low efficiency and a high risk of damage in dense environments such as crop fields because of their open propellers. Compared to multi-rotor UAVs, ducted-fan design can protect the UAV from dense environments and increase the efficiency of the propeller. Ducted fan UAVs generally consist of a single propeller placed inside a duct and fins placed under the propeller that allow the aircraft to move in different directions by changing pitch and roll moments with respect to the center of gravity of the UAV. In the study, a special propeller and a duct are designed to meet the requirements set for the UAV design. The designed propeller and duct for the ducted-fan UAV makes the design unique and reduces the cost of the UAV. To validate the proposed propeller design, aerodynamic analysis is done in ANSYS Fluent, and the results are presented. A controller for the ducted fan UAV is designed and it is tested on a model of the UAV created in Matlab Simulink used by Simscape Toolbox. As a result of tests carried out in a simulation environment, it is observed that the designed UAV is capable of being used in agricultural applications.}, number={Aviation Technologies and Applications Conference (ATAConf’25) Special Issue}, publisher={Ege Üniversitesi}