THE DEVELOPMENT OF TILT-ROTOR UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE

Abstract

In this research, we had developed quad-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles with the tilt-rotor mechanism. People are eager to fly therefore the development of aerial vehicles, such as fixed-wing aerial vehicles and multi-rotor aerial vehicles, has grown rapidly in recent years. The multi-rotor vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle which can fly stably and hover in a fix position developed the fastest. Comparing the general fixed-wing aircrafts and rotorcrafts, fixed-wing aircrafts can fly with a higher speed than rotorcrafts, but they do not have the VTOL and hovering abilities. The proposed quad-rotor aerial vehicle with tilt-rotor mechanism has two flight modes: rotorcraft and fixed-wing aircraft flight mode. It can take-off and land vertically in rotorcraft mode and can also fly faster in fixed-wing aircraft flight mode. The dynamic equations of the proposed quad-rotor aerial vehicle with tiltrotor mechanism are also studied in this paper.