TY - JFULL AU - E. Kaygan and A. Gatto PY - 2014/8/ TI - Investigation of Adaptable Winglets for Improved UAV Control and Performance T2 - International Journal of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering SP - 1288 EP - 1294 VL - 8 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9998884 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 91, 2014 N2 - An investigation of adaptable winglets for morphing aircraft control and performance is described in this paper. The concepts investigated consist of various winglet configurations fundamentally centred on a baseline swept wing. The impetus for the work was to identify and optimize winglets to enhance controllability and the aerodynamic efficiency of a small unmanned aerial vehicle. All computations were performed with Athena Vortex Lattice modelling with varying degrees of twist, swept, and dihedral angle considered. The results from this work indicate that if adaptable winglets were employed on small scale UAV’s improvements in both aircraft control and performance could be achieved. ER -