23rd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 8-13 September, 2002, Toronto, Canada
Paper ICAS 2002-1.3.2

A SYSTEM FRAMEWORK TO AUTOMATE DESIGN DECISION SUPPORT OF RE-CONFIGURABLE UAVS

A. K. Sinha, R. Kusumo
RMIT University, Australia

Keywords: decision support system, unmanned aerial vehicle, system approach

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology has now matured for certain missions, leading to further development of a more effective platform than manned aerial vehicle. The issues and challenges facing their design and development resulted in a large inventory of UAVs, placing logistic support challenges on the operators. To address the logistic challenges, the conceptual design of a multi-mission ‘Re-configurable UAV’ (RC-UAV) is being explored. In this paper, the framework for the automation of design process of RC-UAV is discussed. The framework considers the re-configurable design parameters as the key to automate the process.

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