CN114228992A - Modularized combined ducted fan unmanned aerial vehicle based on ant colony combat concept - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses a modularized combined ducted fan unmanned aerial vehicle based on an ant colony combat concept, wherein the ant colony combat concept is an innovative extension of a bee colony combat, the unmanned aerial vehicle has the characteristic of functional modularization, and is like division and cooperation of an ant colony, unit bodies have different functions, and a combination body can integrate the functions to achieve cooperative combat. The aircraft unit is of a regular polygon structure, and each side face is provided with an autonomous docking mechanism; the docking mechanism includes two functions: 1) the butt joint and the locking of the two units are realized; 2) realizing relative rotation motion between the unit bodies; the combined aircraft comprises a thrust unit and a lift unit, wherein the lift unit is horizontally butted, the unit bodies on the two sides are rotationally converted into the horizontal thrust unit through a butting mechanism, and the voyage and the load are greatly increased. This "ant colony" unmanned aerial vehicle platform has monomer operation concurrently, "ant colony" cooperation, "bee colony" attack, tactics characteristics such as battlefield are hidden, has richened the connotation of "bee colony" cooperation operation greatly.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to an ant colony combat concept-based modularized combined ducted fan unmanned aerial vehicle, and belongs to the technical field of bee colony combat concept design and modularized combined flight platform design.
Background
Along with the continuous intellectualization of modern war weaponry, the operation form is also changing constantly, and characteristics such as low cost, difficult interception, survivability are strong, high kill and kill become the development trend of novel operation concept, and this makes the bee colony operation concept become the hot gradually.
The modern military significance 'bee colony tactics' is based on artificial intelligence, big data and network technology, takes larger land, sea and air operation platforms as carrying and transmitting platforms, takes intelligent unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned ships, unmanned submarines and other unmanned operation systems as weapons, has the capabilities of autonomous situation perception, information fusion, target distribution, command control, self-adaptive cooperation, intelligent decision and the like, carries out autonomous dynamic compilation on the unmanned operation systems in a battlefield according to the change of operation missions and battlefield situations, and adopts the entire operation capability to deal with a complicated, strong confrontation and high uncertainty battlefield environment.
The 'bee colony' battle generally adopts a launcher cluster to launch or adopts a large-scale carrier as a carrying tool, a small-size 'bee colony' aircraft is conveyed to a battle area, the 'bee colony' aircraft is released, the aircraft monomer completes a core battle task, and the following defects exist at present: 1) the 'swarm' aircraft can launch suicide type attack or 'self-destruct' after completing a task, and can be recycled rarely; 2) the flight performance of the swarm unmanned aerial vehicle is limited by the size of the swarm unmanned aerial vehicle, the flight range is short, and the missile loading capacity is small; 3) the unmanned aerial vehicle for launching the swarm by the launcher and the large-scale carrier transportation need to firstly reach the vicinity of a target operation area, the risk coefficient is high, the transportation cost is high, the technical difficulty of a carrier recovery mode is high, and the technical maturity is low; 4) the unmanned plane of the bee colony fights according to the single body, the number wins, and the unmanned plane is not physically connected with each other.
At the same power consumption, the ducted fan generates more drag than an isolated propeller/fan of the same diameter. Meanwhile, due to the ring-included function of the duct, the structure is compact, the aerodynamic noise is low, and the use safety is good, so that the duct is used as a thrust or lift device and is widely applied to the design of aircrafts. For example: the aircraft comprises a ducted tail rotor of a helicopter, a fixed wing aircraft wing or fuselage fused ducted fan lift-increasing device, a ducted fan unmanned aerial vehicle and the like. In recent ten years, due to the change of military operation modes, a small unmanned aerial vehicle is particularly required to be developed, and a detection device can be carried to obtain battlefield information in time and strive for information initiative. The unmanned aerial vehicle is used as an airborne platform of detection equipment, and often emphasizes low-altitude and low-speed performance, and is better to take off and land vertically and hover. Thus, several unmanned aircraft using ducted fans as lift and flight control devices have been developed in succession, such as CYPHER, i-STAR, HELISPY, etc., in the United states, some of which have been successfully tried.
Aiming at the difficult problem that the capacity of a single unmanned plane of a bee colony is limited, the development of the functional modularized intelligent combined ducted fan aircraft is necessary by combining the advantages of the ducted fan aircraft.
Disclosure of Invention
The inherent performance defects of the bee colony unmanned aerial vehicle and the single battle scene are insufficient, and the invention draws a novel multidimensional coordinated ant colony unmanned aerial vehicle equipment development idea and battle requirement: carry out the modularized design with short-range unmanned aerial vehicle, each module carries out functional differentiation and equipment for unmanned aerial vehicle's load and voyage greatly increased can freely decompose in the air when just arriving the operation region, possess the "bee colony" attack ability of large tracts of land killer, other functions such as heavy transport still possess VTOL, \36750simultaneously, adaptable in multiple complicated operation topography and operation scene such as city, jungle, marsh.
The utility model provides a modularization combination duct fan unmanned aerial vehicle based on "ant colony" operation concept possesses modularization combination duct fan unmanned aerial vehicle "ant colony" platform design theory, and each module carries out the functionalization and divides the worker, can decide unmanned aerial vehicle kind and the quantity of constituteing "ant colony" according to the different nature and the scale of operation task to construct the systematic "ant colony" operational capability who adapts to the task demand.
The modularized combined ducted fan unmanned aerial vehicle is composed of a plurality of unit ducted fan aircrafts, and the structure and the function of each unit ducted fan aircraft are modularly designed and can fly autonomously; in the flight process of the plurality of unit body ducted fan aircrafts, the unit body ducted fan aircrafts are automatically butted to form a combined aircraft, and each unit body ducted fan aircraft is in division cooperation; after the aircraft reaches a task area, the combined aircraft can be separated autonomously, and the combat mission can be executed dispersedly, so that the survivability is strong; the aircraft has vertical take-off and landing capability, is suitable for various complex terrains, can take off on the spot after completing the combat mission, and can return to the home for recovery after breaking away from a battlefield.
The unit body culvert fan aircraft is of a regular polygon outer culvert structure, and the middle of the regular polygon outer culvert structure is a lift fan which is horizontally arranged. The unit ducted fan aircraft adopts power of a tilting ducted fan to provide lift force and thrust.
And each outer side wall edge of the regular polygon outer duct structure is provided with a butt joint mechanism, and each butt joint mechanism comprises a horizontal butt joint mechanism and a rotating mechanism. The horizontal butt joint mechanism is used for realizing butt joint and locking of the ducted fan aircrafts of the two unit bodies; the rotating mechanism is used for realizing relative rotating motion between the unit ducted fan aircrafts. Specifically, the method comprises the following steps: the horizontal butt joint mechanism comprises a horizontal butt joint male buckle 5 and a horizontal butt joint female buckle 6, and butt joint between the regular polygon outer duct structures is realized; the rotary mechanism comprises a rotary inner duct 7 and a rotary outer duct 8, the butt joint process is horizontal butt joint firstly, the horizontal butt joint sub-buckle 5 and the horizontal butt joint female buckle 6 of the two duct fan aircrafts are connected and locked, the rotary mechanism rotates relatively between the rotary inner duct 7 and the rotary outer duct 8 as required, and the relative rotation of the two regular polygon outer duct structures is realized.
The invention achieves the following beneficial effects: the technical scheme overcomes the defects of low monomer load, short voyage, difficult accurate delivery, single combat scene and the like of the unmanned plane of the swarm; each module can be functionalized and divided into work, and the types and the number of the unmanned aerial vehicles forming the ant colony can be determined according to different properties and scales of the combat tasks, so that the systematic ant colony combat capability adapting to the task requirements is constructed.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of a unit-volume ducted fan aircraft;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a ducted fan aircraft docking mechanism;
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a combined ducted fan aircraft;
FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a variation of the combined ducted fan aircraft;
in the figure: the method comprises the following steps of 1-a fan, 2-a duct, 3-a butt joint mechanism, 4-a unit duct fan aircraft, 5-a horizontal butt joint male buckle, 6-a horizontal butt joint female buckle, 7-a rotary inner duct and 8-a rotary outer duct.
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The invention is further described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The following examples are only for illustrating the technical solutions of the present invention more clearly, and the protection scope of the present invention is not limited thereby.
The modular combined ducted fan unmanned aerial vehicle based on the ant colony combat concept is formed by splicing unit ducted fan aircrafts, and a combined body has two functional modular units, namely a lift unit and a thrust unit after being deformed.
According to the attached figure 1 for the schematic diagram of unit body duct unmanned aerial vehicle, the aircraft is regular hexagon frame in the figure, each unit body aircraft can independently connect 6 other unit body aircraft, the aircraft comprises fan, duct and docking mechanism triplex, the fan is rotatory to produce lift, the aircraft possesses the ability of VTOL, docking mechanism is used for connecting the unit body aircraft combination.
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a docking mechanism of a ducted fan aircraft, wherein the docking mechanism has the functions of horizontal docking and relative rotation of unit body aircrafts, and comprises a horizontal docking male buckle 5 and a horizontal docking female buckle 6, so that docking between regular polygonal outer ducted structures is realized; the rotary mechanism comprises a rotary inner duct 7 and a rotary outer duct 8, the butt joint process is horizontal butt joint firstly, the horizontal butt joint sub-buckle 5 and the horizontal butt joint female buckle 6 of the two duct fan aircrafts are connected and locked, the rotary mechanism rotates relatively between the rotary inner duct 7 and the rotary outer duct 8 as required, and the relative rotation of the two regular polygon outer duct structures is realized.
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a combined ducted fan aircraft, the combined ducted fan aircraft is formed by horizontally butting unit ducted fan aircraft, the six aircraft are horizontally butted to form the shape shown in FIG. 3, and the combined aircraft has the characteristics of horizontal take-off and landing of the unit ducted fan aircraft and can have the advantages of larger effective load and the like.
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a variant form of a combined ducted fan aircraft, eight aircraft are in butt joint to form a combined body, two symmetrical unit body aircraft rotate around a central axis to form the variant form shown in FIG. 4, a rotating unit is provided with a thrust functional module, and the range and the flat flying speed of the combined body variant form aircraft are greatly increased.
The aircraft is applied to 'bee colony' battles and various battle scenes in complex terrains such as cities, jungles and swamps. The modularized intelligent combined type ducted fan aircraft has the capability of accurately controlling the spatial position, the load capacity in a wide range, the intelligent combination and decomposition capability and the autonomous flight capability, and the applicable range comprises various forms of individual aircraft, "bee colony" operation, investigation, weapon mounting, transportation, rescue and the like.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and it should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, several modifications and variations can be made without departing from the technical principle of the present invention, and these modifications and variations should also be regarded as the protection scope of the present invention.
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1. A modularized combined ducted fan unmanned aerial vehicle based on the ant colony combat concept is characterized in that the modularized combined ducted fan unmanned aerial vehicle is composed of a plurality of unit ducted fan aircrafts, and the structure and the function of each unit ducted fan aircraft are modularly designed and can fly autonomously; in the flight process of the plurality of unit body ducted fan aircrafts, the unit body ducted fan aircrafts are automatically butted to form a combined aircraft, and each unit body ducted fan aircraft is in division cooperation; after the aircraft reaches a task area, the aircraft of the combination body can be separated autonomously, and the battle tasks can be executed dispersedly;
the unit body culvert fan aircraft is of a regular polygon outer culvert structure, and the middle of the regular polygon outer culvert structure is provided with lift fans which are horizontally arranged; the unit ducted fan aircraft adopts power of a tilting ducted fan to provide lift force and thrust force;
each outer side wall edge of the regular polygon outer duct structure is provided with a butt joint mechanism, and each butt joint mechanism comprises a horizontal butt joint mechanism and a rotating mechanism; the horizontal butt joint mechanism is used for realizing butt joint and locking of the ducted fan aircrafts of the two unit bodies; the rotating mechanism is used for realizing relative rotating motion between the unit ducted fan aircrafts; specifically, the method comprises the following steps: the horizontal butt joint mechanism comprises a horizontal butt joint male buckle and a horizontal butt joint female buckle, and butt joint between the regular polygon outer duct structures is realized; the rotary mechanism comprises a rotary inner duct and a rotary outer duct, the butt joint process is horizontal butt joint firstly, the horizontal butt joint sub-buckle and the horizontal butt joint female buckle of the two duct fan aircrafts are connected and locked, the rotary mechanism rotates the rotary inner duct and the rotary outer duct relatively according to needs, and the relative rotation of the two regular polygon outer duct structures is realized.
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