Development of System Models for the Evaluation of Unmanned Airborne Early Warning Aircraft

Abstract

This collaborative project between Linköping University and SAAB Aeronautics aims to deliver tools that will enable the preliminary sizing and evaluation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as Airborne Early Warning (AEW) platforms. In this light, the two challenges that have been undertaken by our research group is to first identify a number of potential UAV concepts, and second to develop a model-based multidisciplinary analysis framework that can be used to perform a design space exploration.