27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-6.3.1

THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS OF AERODYNAMICS AND FLIGHT DYNAMICS FOR MICRO-UAVS

V. Brusov, V. Petruchik, Yu. Tiumentsev
MAI, Russian Federation

Keywords: aerodynamics, flight dynamics, micro-uav, hysteresis, simulation

Problems related to aerodynamics and flight dynamics of small and very small unmanned aerial vehicles are discussed. The discussion is based on results obtained from wind tunnel and flight experiments as well as from computational simulation. Special emphasis is made on detection of behavior peculiarities for such kind of vehicles.

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