Open Information and Computer Integrated Technologies

The unmanned aircraft systems application is in the initial stage, which is characterized by a significant level of unmanned aircraft development and its elements, and by the lack of the basis of unmanned aircraft application in real technological processes. Resolution of this contradiction requires the solution of diverse problems of conceptual, technical, technological, methodological, organizational and legal – normative character.

In general, today the unmanned aircraft systems application in the civil field is practically limited by particular cases of local applications in favor of the solution of current production or economic problems, mainly by the experimental procedure. Therefore, the market growth of the unmanned aircraft systems is expected providing the capability of a number of technical and administrative barriers that restrict the use of unmanned aircraft systems in the national airspace. It should also be noted the increasing prevalence of unmanned systems in general transport.

This study was motivated by the globally increasing interest in unmanned cargo drones. It was focused particularly on cargo drones based on existing conventional general aviation airplanes and it should be regarded as a preliminary step towards the complex assessment of unmanned cargo aircraft transport systems. The aim was to estimate the fuel efficiency of such drones and to outline the optimums of some of their key design characteristics. A sample of 26 very light and light aircraft, and motorgliders was examined. The data was taken from open sources. The results outline that for best fuel economy the cargo drone should be a composite structure, piston engine airplane with wing aspect ratio of 10 to 12. Fuel efficiency estimation at distances of 500 to 2500 km shows that such cargo drones would be competitive with large piloted commercial cargo airplanes as well as with the road transport.

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References

Kharchenko V., Prusov D., Analysis of unmanned aircraft systems application in the civil field National Aviation University – Kiev, 2012 – P. 118 – 130.

V.S. Serbezov Assessment of the fuel efficiency of unmanned cargo aircraft, based on general aviation aircraft – IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering 664 – Bulgaria, 2019. – P. 59 – 66.

International Air Transport Association 2018 IATA cargo strategy (Retrieved June, 3, 2019)

Kallas S, Geoghegan-Quinn M, Darecki M, Edelstenne C, Enders T, Fernandez E and Hartman P Flightpath 2050 europe’s vision for aviation Report of the high level group on aviation research, European commission, Report No. EUR 98 – Brussels, Belgium, 2011. – P. 44 – 52.

Amoiralis E.I. Tsili M A, Spathopoulos V and Hatziefremidis A Energy efficiency optimization in uavs: a review. In Materials Science Forum 792 – 2014. – P. 117 – 131.

Valerdi R. Cost metrics for unmanned aerial vehicles Infotech@ Aerospace 7102 – 2005. – P. 34 –37.

Stolaroff J K, Samaras C, O’Neill E R, Lubers A, Mitchell A S and Ceperley D Energy use and life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of drones for commercial package delivery Nature communications 9(1) 409 – 2018. – P. 41 –49.

Gulden T.R. The Energy Implications of Drones for Package Delivery: A Geographic Information System Comparison – 2017. – P. 66 –72.

Collins M.P. The future market for Large Unmanned Cargo Aircraft in the national airspace system Faculty of Lewis University Aviation & Transportation Illinois USA – 2017. – P. 21 –29.

Van Groningen R Cost Benefit Analysis Unmanned Cargo Aircraft: Case Study Stuttgart– Urumqi/Shenzen Erasmus University Rotterdam – Rotterdam, 2017. – P. 47 –56.

Lee J.J, Lukachko S.P, Waitz I.A. and Schafer A Historical and future trends in aircraft performance, cost, and emissions Annual Rev. Energy and the Environment 26(1) – 2001. – P. 167 –200.

Peeters P.M, Middel J and Hoolhorst A Fuel efficiency of commercial aircraft: an overview of historical and future trends NLR-CR-2005-669 – 2005. – P. 89 –102.

Hasan Y J, Sachs F and Dauer J C Preliminary design study for a future unmanned cargo aircraft configuration. CEAS Aeronautical Journal 9(4) 571–86 – 2018. – P. 61 –74.

Burzlaff M Aircraft Fuel Consumption–Estimation and Visualization, Department of Automotive and Aeronautical Engineering, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences) – Hamburg, 2001. – P. 47 –63.