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JRM Vol.36 No.5 pp. 1037-1042
doi: 10.20965/jrm.2024.p1037
(2024)

Paper:

A Novel Tailsitter UAV with Configurable Wings

Shunsuke Yoshinaga, Akinori Sakaguchi ORCID Icon, and Kaoru Yamamoto ORCID Icon

Graduate School and Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University
744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan

Corresponding author

Received:
December 15, 2023
Accepted:
March 4, 2024
Published:
October 20, 2024
Keywords:
tailsitter, configurable wing, parallel link mechanism
Abstract

In this study, we propose a novel tailsitter unmanned aerial vehicle with configurable wings using a parallel link mechanism. It has two flight modes: a hover mode and a forward flight mode by pitching, similar to conventional tailsitters. In addition, it can deform its airframe in each flight mode. In the hover mode, it can tilt the frame in the pitch direction while hovering. In the forward flight mode, it can change the configuration of the wings during forward flight. In experiments, we show that it can transition from the hover mode to the forward flight mode with three wing configurations: non-staggered wings (biplane) and positively and negatively staggered wings (tandem wing plane), using an attitude controller for conventional quadrotors.

Configurable tailsitter with hover/flight modes

Configurable tailsitter with hover/flight modes

Cite this article as:
S. Yoshinaga, A. Sakaguchi, and K. Yamamoto, “A Novel Tailsitter UAV with Configurable Wings,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.36 No.5, pp. 1037-1042, 2024.
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