SWING

The Project SWING (Smart WIng for New Generation of UAVs for civil use) aims to study composite materials, processes for composite materials, design methodologies for composite structures, actuation systems and health monitoring methodologies (both structural and for the actuation system) to be applied for a UAV for future civil use

The project (financed by the MISE) involves Italsystem with other major national companies in order to improve the pre-competitive advantage of the Italian aerospace industry in the growing market of remotely piloted aircraft.

The objectives of this project are:

1. Make a composite demonstrator of a reference UAV wingbox and test it statically. The target is to achieve a weight approximately 10% lower than the same geometry made from classical materials and a cost approximately 5% lower than the same geometry made from classical materials.

The biggest issue in achieving this goal is the availability of an eligible database for composite materials for use in design; material qualification is a technological barrier if a civil aeronautical product is to be certified. The cost to overcome this barrier is very high and usually only affordable for large aeronautical OEMs. This project will first aim to overcome this barrier by focusing on the qualification of two basic materials.

2. Making a demonstrator of the implementation system (Actuator and Control Unit) and test it together with the surface to be implemented (Iron Bird). The target is to realise an implementation system with high criticality (DAL A , one failure out of 10-9 FH)

ItalSystem is responsible for ECU design and development, drawing on its 20 years of experience in the development and certification of embedded systems in the avionics field.

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