The Concept of Morphing in UAVs
UAVs or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are the aircrafts that don’t have a human crew on-board to control and fly. They can be fully automatic, semi-automatic or controlled remotely by a human pilot. This helps the aircrafts to carry high risk missions like disaster-stricken area (e.g., Landslide, Flood, and Earthquake) and also for surveys & mapping of cities and conservation of wildlife with slight modifications [1]. Their sizes can vary from radio controlled small hobby-plane to even large commercial airlines. One such UAV variant from Team RAKSHAK is as follows: Figure 1: Smokey, Team RAKSHAK [1] Wing morphology can play a crucial role in various flight states of UAV like cruising, maneuvering or hovering. For example a commercial aircraft can spend around 90% of its flight time in cruising mode. In such cases high lift-drag ratio will be required for optimal cruising performance. The general flight state cycles for most of UAVs comprise loitering, cruising, fast a...