25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-1.10.1

AUTOMATION OF CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF VERTICAL TAKE-OFF UAVS – DEMONSTRATION MODEL

A. Rathore, A. Sinha, J. Khreish
RMIT, Australia

Keywords: VTUAV, Concept Design, Automation

The conventional helicopter design process provides an avenue to develop an automated design process for VTUAVs. In this paper the modelling and automation of the rotary-wing conceptual design process for the design of a VTUAV is investigated and demonstrated through a case-study.

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