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Design optimization-under-uncertainty of a forward swept wing unmanned aerial vehicle using SAMURAI
| Content Provider | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| Author | Wauters, Jolan |
| Copyright Year | 2022 |
| Abstract | In this paper the design optimization-under-uncertainty of a forward swept wing (FSW) blended wing body (BWB) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is examined. Conventional BWBs are often tailless, which leads to a backward swept wing to ensure longitudinal static stability. This in turn can induce flow separation at the tip, leading to a loss of lift, controllability and the appearance of a nose-up pitching moment. A possible solution to this problem is a conceptual redesign by introducing a forward swept wing, which is inherently free of tip-stall, but needs a careful design in order to be controllable. However, fixed wing UAVs are often produced by means of direct injection expanded foam moulding, which is characterized by not negligible production tolerances. This lead to a reliability-based robust design optimization problem, for which a novel framework is employed: SAMURAI. Firstly, the method accounts for computational cost by means of surrogate modelling, an analytical treatment of the problem and an asynchronous updating scheme that balances design space exploration and objective exploitation. Secondly, the method treats the problem as a multi-objective problem, which leads to a Pareto front of robust and reliable designs. The result is a novel series of UAV designs that are inherently free of tip stall, perform robustly and meet the stability requirements with the target reliability obtained with a computationally feasible budget. |
| Related Links | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/17568293221092139?download=true |
| ISSN | 17568293 |
| Volume Number | 14 |
| Journal | International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles (MAV) |
| e-ISSN | 17568307 |
| DOI | 10.1177/17568293221092139 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Sage Publications UK |
| Publisher Date | 2022-05-11 |
| Publisher Place | London |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | © The Author(s) 2022 |
| Subject Keyword | Bayesian optimization Optimization-under-uncertainty unmanned aerial vehicles forward swept wing |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Aerospace Engineering |
