A REVIEW OF TACTICAL UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE DESIGN STUDIES

Abstract

In this study, a literaturesearch was conducted on tactical unmanned aerial vehicles. First of all, it wasclassified as an unmanned aerial vehicle. It is mentioned about thecharacteristics of ZANKA-III, which is highly autonomous, passive and activemorphing, aerodynamically perfect, tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (TUAV)ZANKA-III, supported by TUBITAK's 1001 Ardeb program 115M603 by TUBITAK and itis mentioned that they have superior characteristics from other tacticalunmanned aerial vehicles. Not only physical properties but also the autopilotsystem structure, the optimization method used, and the state space modelthrough the executive equations of the body are briefly mentioned. For thispurpose longitudinal and lateral dynamics modeling of TUAVs produced in ErciyesUniversity, Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Model Aircraft Laboratoryare considered in order to obtain simulation environments. Our produced TUAV iscalled as ZANKA-III which has weight of 50 kg, range of around 3000 km,endurance of around 28 hour, and ceiling altitude of around 12500 m. Von-Karmanturbulence modeling is used in order to model atmospheric turbulence duringflight in both longitudinal and lateral simulation environments. A stochasticoptimization method called as simultaneous perturbation stochasticapproximation.