ICAT - Reports and Papers
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AN ASSESSMENT OF ELECTRIC STOL AIRCRAFT
(2019-09-05)Distributed electric propulsion (DEP) is an emerging set of technologies which enable new vehicle configurations by allowing the efficient distribution of many smaller propulsors around the airframe. One application of ... -
Model Development for a Comparison of VTOL and STOL Electric Aircraft Using Geometric Programming
(2019-09-04)There is widespread interest in the use of electric aircraft for short missions in and around urban areas. Most of the vehicle configurations proposed for these missions are electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) ... -
Assessing Multi-rotor UAV Controllability in Low Altitude Fine-Scale Wind Fields
(2019-09-03)This study presents a means of assessing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) control in various environments using control margin. The metric gives an instantaneous measure of control authority and is defined by dividing ...
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