Initial design methodology of electric Unmanned Ground Vehicle and its application

 As UGVs become more prevalent, the versatile vehicles are expected to perform more difficult task such as operations that include collaborative work with other unmanned vehicles. As such, to satisfy the development requirements, an initial methodology of UGV was developed to first evaluate and analyse its engineering characteristics of the UGV.

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• Figure 1. DSM of the developed design methodology [Left], Design space analysis process [Right]
  
  

 The developed methodology could then be integrated it with other initial design methodologies of other unmanned systems to access the performance of the combined system. While satisfying performance requirements of each vehicle, constraints rising from the inter-operation were also considered to produce a feasible set of vehicles. In this way, both UGV designers

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• Figure 2. Results from the integrated methodology of UGV and UAV (ConOps provided by KARI)
  

 Reference

[1] I. Lee, J. Kim, H. Kim, Y. Kim, J.C. Kim, K. Yee, An initial parametric sizing methodology for wheeled electric unmanned ground vehicles, in Asia Pacific Int. Symp. Aerospace Techonol. (APISAT), Adelaide, Australia, 2024, pp. 1492-1495.