Empirical Research on Feasibility of an Ejection-type Aircraft for Exploration

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K14500
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Aerospace engineering
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: SHIRAYAMA Susumu 東京大学, 大学院工学系研究科(工学部), 准教授 (10322067)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 高藤 圭一郎 西日本工業大学, 工学部, 教授 (10461485)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 特殊航空機 / 回転翼 / 非定常流れの定量的比較法 / 発射装置 / 視線計測分析 / 設計知識化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Although a MAV (Micro Air Vehicle) is considered to be useful for exploration in a severe environment like planetary exploration etc., it has been pointed out that the risk which the functions of MAV do not work correctly as its mechanism becomes complicated. In this research, we apply a flying dragonfly propeller known as “taketombo” which has no propulsion system or electronic control system, and the mechanism is simple to the development of an ejection type aircraft for exploration. We carried out the study based on the following three sub-themes: (1) Development of a launch device capable of ensuring the reproducibility of the flight path and speed, and data acquisition technique during flight experiment, (2) Establishment of evaluation method to determine the wing section in low Reynolds number regime, (3) Establishment of method of extracting the design information for the launch device from the behavior analysis.

Free Research Field

流体情報学