An integrated method for lightweight design and additive manufacturing of UAV arms
Ruoyu Wang, Wenwei Yang, Guoying Pang, Zhiru Liu, Xue Rao, Yangyang Yu
TL;DR
This paper introduces a new method for designing and manufacturing lightweight UAV arms using topology optimization and additive manufacturing, accounting for material anisotropy and printing constraints.
Contribution
The novel contribution is an integrated design method that incorporates AM anisotropy and minimum feature size constraints into topology optimization for UAV arms.
Findings
The compliance difference between the proposed method and traditional optimization is only 0.46%.
Printing efficiency is improved by approximately 69% while ensuring manufacturability.
A unified design-to-manufacturing workflow is established for UAVs and other lightweight components.
Abstract
Topology optimization and additive manufacturing (AM) have been widely applied to the lightweight design and fabrication of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, existing topology optimization methods for UAVs typically assume isotropic materials, neglecting the anisotropy inherent in AM and the associated manufacturing precision constraints. This paper proposes a lightweight integrated method in MATLAB R2021a for the design and AM of UAV arms that simultaneously accounts for printing-induced anisotropy and minimum feature size constraints. A topology optimization model is proposed that uses nodal density and element printing angle as coupled design variables, and the corresponding sensitivity analysis is carried out. In the manufacturing phase, a contour-offset strategy is employed to generate printing paths for the optimized structures, achieving effective force transmission. The…
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Taxonomy
TopicsTopology Optimization in Engineering · Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies · Aeroelasticity and Vibration Control