Exploring the Impact of Rapidly Actuated Control Surfaces on Drone Aerodynamics

A Panta, M Marino, A Fisher, A Mohamed, S Watkins - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study investigates the use of rapidly actuated leading-edge and trailing-edge control
surfaces to improve the control authority of small fixed-wing drones. Static and dynamic …

Lift response of rapidly actuated leading-edge and trailing-edge control surfaces for MAVs

A Panta, S Watkins, M Marino, A Fisher… - AIAA Scitech 2019 …, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
Air Vehicles have revolutionized our capabilities in gathering information, monitoring
situations, and delivering small payloads. However, due to their compact size and operation …

Exploiting Rapidly Actuated Control Surfaces

C Dayajeewa, S Ravi, S Bhat - 2024 - afmc2024.org
This project aims to analyse the influence of the deflection rate (𝛿̇) and deflection range
(𝛿) of a TECS, and the wing's incident angle-of-attack (𝛼) with a more comprehensive test …