Morphing unmanned aerial vehicles

作者：Juan Carlos Arango Gómez, Ephrahim Garcia · 发表于：Smart Materials and Structures · 年份：2011 · DOI：10.1088/0964-1726/20/10/103001 · 被引用次数：175 · 研究领域：Aeroelasticity and Vibration Control、Structural Analysis and Optimization、Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization

Research on aircraft morphing has exploded in recent years. The motivation and driving force behind this has been to find new and novel ways to increase the capabilities of aircraft. Materials advancements have helped to increase possibilities with respect to actuation and, hence, a diversity of concepts and unimagined capabilities. The expanded role of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has provided an ideal platform for exploring these emergent morphing concepts since at this scale a greater amount of risk can be taken, as well as having more manageable fabrication and cost requirements. This review focuses on presenting the role UAVs have in morphing research by giving an overview of the UAV morphing concepts, designs, and technologies described in the literature. A presentation of quantitative information as well as a discussion of technical issues is given where possible to begin gaining some insight into the overall assessment and performance of these technologies.