Recently, a considerable attention has been given to the development of high performance unmanned aerial vehicle because of its potential ultimate mission-capability. To meet the requirement for high performance, UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) needs to ...
Recently, a considerable attention has been given to the development of high performance unmanned aerial vehicle because of its potential ultimate mission-capability. To meet the requirement for high performance, UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) needs to be designed optimally. Due to the reason, an optimal design procedure is newly constructed and applied to optimal design of UAV wing structure in this study.
To provide preliminary configuration of UAV wing structure, traditional design method is utilized. In optimization of preliminary design, genetic algorithm is utilized, and both of arrangement and thickness of spar and rib, which compose the torsion box of primary wing, are considered as design variables. Total weight, maximum yield stress, and wing-tip deflection are selected as objective functions, and each case is optimized. Also a multi-objective function is constructed by combining three cases in order to increase the design flexibility according to its mission and intention of design engineer, and its optimization is carried out.
To update the arrangement of spar and rib in optimizing process, remodeling and remeshing are essential, which may lead to human labor intensive work. In the newly constructed optimal design procedure, the remodeling and remeshing steps are automated by using Patran Command Language in order to exclude expensive human labor.
From the results of study, it is identified that the newly constructed design procedure is nearly automatic, and it can be applied to practical design of UAV structures.