Study and Design of VTOL
Study and Design of VTOL
On
Submitted to
Mr. Sumit Krishnan.
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CERTIFICATE
AUUP, LUCKNOW
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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CONTENTS
➢ ABSTRACT……………………………………………………………….…….. 6
➢ INTRODUCTION………………………………………………..... …………… 7
1. VTOL TECHNOLOGY
1.1 CONCEPT EXPLORATION………………………………….……….…………… 9
1.2 FLIGHT PLATFORM…………………………………………………..…………... 10
1.3 PAYLOAD COMPONENTS…………………………………………..................... 12
1.4 KK 2.1 FLIGHT CONTROLLER BOARD……………………………………….... 14
(a) Factory Reset………………………………………………………..… 14
(b) Motors Layout……………………………………………................... 14
(c) Accelerometer Calibration ….……..……………...………………...... 15
(d) Self Level Setting….………………………………………………..…. 15
(e) PI settings……………………………………………………..….... 16
2. TYPES OF VTOL
3. MAKING OF VTOL
4. SAFETY STATEMENT
➢ CONCLUSIONS
➢ ROLE OF TEAM MEMBERS
➢ REFERENCES
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ABSTRACT
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) has grown in military because of its ability
to operate in dangerous and critical locations while keeping the human operators to safe
distance. The large UAV also provide a reliable long duration, cost effectiveness,
platform for reconnaissance as well as weapons. They have grown to become very
important and crucial tool for the military. The question that I posed for my project was
whether small UAV’s has utility in military and commercial or industrial applications.
I found that smaller UAV can serve more skilled operations such as searching a village
or a building looking for enemy positions or hostages. Smaller are very easy to control
and can be kept hidden from radar to maximum extent.
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INTRODUCTION
Different parts of VTOL Drone have different Functions. These functions are as
follows,
• Frame : Main body part of VTOL Drone. It is used for mounting all the
electronics parts.
• Motors and Propellers : parts which provides thrust for quadcopter to lift off
and perform maneuvering.
• Power Distribution Board : PCB Board which connects all ESC’s with one
single connection output.
• Transmitter and Receiver : Joystick used to send and receive the controls of
Quadcopter.
• Landing Gear : takes all load while landing and gives ground clearance to other
electronics.
2) Drag (D) : Drag is the component acting opposite to the thrust that is
vertically downward.
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Control and Stability of Quadcopter : - Quadcopters are mostly controlled by
changing the RPM of motors. It does according to the signal input given by IMU sensor
and receiver, controller board calculates motor output signal using PID algorithm. PID
stands for Proportional, Integral and Differential. These algorithms are used to
overcome the errors.
i. Proportional : overcomes past Errors.
ii. Integral : overcomes present Errors.
iii. Differential : overcomes future Errors.
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1. VTOL Drone Technology
Once decided to make the VTOL Drone, I tend to make my mind up with what physical
science to be used to build it. Initially I did some analysis on the internet, I find a handful
forums that had open supply of electronics and programming elements needed for
creating a VTOL Drone. It offered terrible basics with extremely customizable VTOL
Drone bodies that were appropriate for me to use to make my baseline system. The DIY
drone’s websites provided me critical info on what was being tired the amateur drone
community and provided me necessary information on what would be achievable for
me to use for my project. Motivated by the SUT’17, I tend to believe that the VTOL
Drone would be the best place to go since it has very better future and can be used as
learning and developing tool in Aerospace Engineering.
I started with body materials and basic electronics which I learned to know about
it when did some exploration over internet. I chose bio foam as a platform for my VTOL
Drone and payload with stand for KK board and receiver.
I learned about the phenomena of quad flying. The quadcopter mechanism is bit
complicated when it comes to programming. Since, I had no idea of Programming in C,
C++, I decided to use preprogrammed microcontroller to give the command.
Once the drone liftoff, the revolution of all propeller is changed according to the
motion I need for my Drone. This revolution is controlled by KK board when get signal
received from transmitter to receiver connected to board.
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1.2. Flight Platform:
At first, I chose the materials I was supposed to use for the fabrication and
building of VTOL Drone. I chose bio foam as a platform for battery and payload on the
Drone, I then selected hollow cylindrical rods for making the arms of quadcopter.
The landing gear was supposed to be strong, so I selected aluminum solid bars
with 0.3mm thickness having high strength. It provides quadcopter from getting jerk
while landing and gives more ground clearance while liftoff and landing.
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I used two lipo batteries with ratings of 25C and 30C with 2200mAH and
2800mAh. These batteries had flight capability of about three minutes. I used futaba
6J RC controller to control the quadcopter. It is six channel radio transmitter helps for
flying RC Drones like Aircrafts, quadcopters, gliders, etc. The four channel controls
pitch, roll, thrust and yaw motion of quadcopter. Remaining two channels can be used
for cameras or other payloads. I used fly sky FS-CT6B transmitter set for learning
simulation in laptops from software Real Flight G7.
Real Flight G7 is the simulation software helps in learning the virtual flying of
any small RC model. This software contains 100s of models and aircrafts to learn
flying. The model best suited for my quadcopter flying was Impala 0.30. It is a
helicopter model which is completely analogous to Quadcopter I made.
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1.3. Payload Components:
The camera used was 13MP rear camera of ASUS Zenfone 2 laser. The laptop
used for live feedback was Lenovo G50. The IP address generated was
http://192.168.43.1:8080/. With the help of this app I recorded the celebration of 15th
august in my college. It was a successful attempt as the picture quality was good. I also
took some pictures of peoples and building while flying to certain height.
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Figure 6. Webpage of IP webcam Address.
In this webpage we can watch live video by clicking on Browser from Video
render and can chose audio player as well for both audio and video. Below that, many
additional options are giver to record, capture and change the video quality, zoom,
Exposure compensation etc. The video can be recorded and saved in mobile with the
quality you prefer during the circumstances from the laptop.
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1.4. KK 2.1 Flight Controller Board:
(a). Factory Reset: -Once I bought a KK multicopter Board, First step for its setup is
factory Reset. This helps in eliminating the risk of unwanted operations and setting. To
do that steps are :
i. Click on MENU button on KK Board.
ii. Select “Factory Reset” option by dragging down to the end and click ENTER.
iii. Press “Yes” in next dialog box and let the resetting happen.
iv. Click “Back” and return to main page.
(b). Motors Layout: - The orientation of motor is very important aspect for flying.
The motor layout should be selected and installed according to suggestion in board.
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The motor outputs must be connected accordingly. To select and check the motor
position follow these steps.
(d) Self Level Setting: - Self level is one of the most important aspect for flying. It
helps your drone to stay level during flying. Self-level is a setting of a quadcopter
helps in restoring the imbalance and staying in stable form with coordinates calibrated
during acc. celebration. To turn on the self-level,
P Gain : 65
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P Limit : 20
(e) PI settings: -PI stands for Proportional and Integral. These two terms are used to
overcome the error made by the Wind or obstacles. Proportional helps in minimizing
the past errors whereas Integral helps in minimizing present errors. The limit of “P
Gain” and “I Gain” defines the accuracy and performance of Quadcopter. The process
to do it is,
P Gain : 65 65 65
P Limit : 65 65 65
I Gain : 30 30 50
I Limit : 20 20 10.
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2. TYPES OF VTOL DRONE
Drones or UAVs are essentially aero machines which can fly while not having any
human pilot present within the aero body. These are specially controlled through
computers, Remote Controllers or in case of toy drones with RC Transmitter.
when it comes down to the classification of these drones, there is no category, in line
with the usage, durability, drones are constructed in numerous shapes and sizes.
one of the locations drones are used frequently is in the military. They use them to
behavior surveillance paintings in regions where there is no chance in sending human
beings to do the same.
The drones are classified based on its shape, size and numbers of Propeller setup. It
can vary according to the purpose and need.
• A single rotor helicopter has the benefit of much greater efficiency than the
multi-rotors, and also, they can be powered by a gas motor for even longer
duration of flight.
• The downsides of single rotor are their complexity, cost, vibration, and the
danger of their large spinning blades.
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2.2. Multi Rotor Drones
• Multi rotor is the best Drones when it comes to payload delivery and
surveillance.
• They can be of any size as per the requirement.
• They are used for 3-D mapping, detecting hostages, carrying payload from one
place to another and spying.
• The downside of multi rotor are its endurance and speed. This makes them
unsuitable for large scale aerial mapping.
• Improvement of drones are ongoing for their better endurance, speed and long-
distance monitoring and inspection.
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2.3 Fixed-Wing Hybrid VTOL
These drones are the intermediate of fixed-wing and rotor aircrafts.
i. V-22 Osprey.
ii. Harrier Jump Jet.
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V-22 Osprey
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3. MAKING OF VTOL DRONE
Before starting the design of Any UAV drone, one should decide their purpose
and design requirements. For Example, my requirement and purpose is,
Structural weight can differ from size to size and can be weighted. Electronics on the
other hand can be selected and found its weight over the internet or under its
specification. For my VTOL
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3.3 Frame Designing: -
One of the most important parameter in VTOL designing is Thrust to weight ratio.
Thrust to weight ratio in case of VTOL is almost 200%.
Therefore,
This defines the requirement of motors and propeller to liftoff the VTOL Drone. Since
the total thrust is 1000 grams hence, we need motor with 500 grams thrust. After
searching over the internet, I found the motor of perfect fit. Its specifications are,
i. RPM : 1000kv.
ii. Max. Current Draw : 15 A.
iii. Thrust : 850 ~ 1000 grams.
iv. Recommended : 10 * 4.5 inches
Propeller
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ESC has two main specification,
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3.4 Flying guide: - I have used Real Flight G7 flight simulator to learn virtual
flying. It provides very descent exposure to flying. I first connected my transmitter to
the laptop and linked it with the simulator. The drone I chose according to my model
was “Impala 0.30 Training Heli”. It is almost same replica of quadcopter.
Later I selected “V-22 Osprey” for VTOL Hybrid Simulation.
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4. Safety Statement
VTOL Drones are very dangerous when mishandles. To avoid the accidents
while testing we should follow few steps.
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Conclusion
Now, I have Collected all the information about VTOL planes and how Hybrid
planes differ with Normal VTOL Drones.
I will now start Designing of My own HYBRID VTOL Drone from the data
collected as my MAJOR PROJECT.
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➢ Role of Team Members.
I selected this topic as my minor and major project because I wanted to learn more
about VTOL and its Mechanism. My team members Novel and bhisham supported me in
my project with their individual contribution.
I chose this topic to take my next step in VTOL Drones topic after Quadcopter as
my NTCC project. My contribution in Minor project was as a designing the drone and
check the airworthiness of Drone.
Abstract of my Contribution.
1. Making Of VTOL
2. Safety Statement.
i. Mechanical Safety.
ii. Electrical Safety.
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2. BHISHAM KUMAR THAKUR.
My contribution to the project was to boost the process of learning about the VTOL.
I gathered all the information related to VTOL Drones and its applications.
I was amazed to know such details about VTOL Drones. These drones were
combinations of both Fixed wing and Multi-rotors. I came to know about two actual
aircraft possessing the VTOL configuration
a. V-22 Osprey.
b. Family Harrier Jump Jet.
Abstract of my Contribution.
2. VTOL Technology.
i. Concept Exploration.
ii. Flight Platform.
iii. Payload Components.
iv. KK 2.1 Flight controller Board.
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3. NOVEL ADHIKARI.
I was very excited when I joined this Group. I was very curious to learn about
aerodynamics of VTOl. The name of the topic was making me Keen to learn abut it
in details
I immediately started learning about all the details about VTOL Drones. Initially
I started with the Introduction about the Topic. I framed introduction about VTOL
just after the abstract given by my group member Bhisham.
I also learned about various types of VTOL Drones. They were very interesting
and eye-catching. I am waiting for us to gather all the required information as soon
as possible so that we can design VTOL drone of our own.
Abstract of my Contribution.
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REFERENCES
THEISIS
Quad copter project by Matt parker, Chris Robbiano And Gered Bottorff
(Colorado State University)
BOOKS
INTERNET
wikipedia.org
andrew.gibiansky.com
brage.bibsys.no
arc.aiaa.org
SOFTWRES USED
Real Flight G7
TRAINING WORKSHOP
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