Development of a spherical aerial vehicle for urban search

Kang Hou; Hanxu Sun; Qingxuan Jia; Yanheng Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.2050755

19 June 2014 Development of a spherical aerial vehicle for urban search

Kang Hou, Hanxu Sun, Qingxuan Jia, Yanheng Zhang

Proceedings Volume 9085, Sensors and Systems for Space Applications VII; 90850A (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2050755
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2014, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

With the ability to provide close surveillance in narrow space or urban areas, spherical aerial vehicles have been of great interest to many scholars and researchers. The spherical aerial vehicle offers substantial design advantages over the conventional small aerial vehicles. As a kind of small aerial vehicles, spherical aerial vehicle is presented in this paper. Firstly, the unique structure of spherical aerial vehicle is presented in detail. And then as the key component of the spherical aerial vehicle, the meshed spherical shell is analyzed. The shell is made of carbon fiber and is used to protect the inner devices, so the deformation of the shell is analyzed and simulated. Then the experimental results verify the above analysis and the composite carbon fiber material makes the mesh spherical shell small deformation. Considering the whole vehicle has a shell outside, the lift affect of the meshed spherical shell is analyzed. The simulation and experiment results are basically consistent with theoretical analysis, and the impact of the meshed shell has small resistance for the airflow through the sphere.

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Kang Hou, Hanxu Sun, Qingxuan Jia, and Yanheng Zhang "Development of a spherical aerial vehicle for urban search", Proc. SPIE 9085, Sensors and Systems for Space Applications VII, 90850A (19 June 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2050755

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