Simulation based on motion platform for tilt rotor UAV shipboard landing

Tilt Rotor UAV of KARI has been developed for ground surveillance, of which performance has been verified through flight test in 2013. Today the use of UAV becomes popular in the field of not only surveillance but also reconnaissance, rescue, science investigation, and home delivery etc. Tilt rotor UAV has a merit of vertical take-off and landing, so that it is convinient to be used in the oceanic operation of UAV with shipboard landing. However the operation environment of UAV in ocean is much severer than the one on the ground and very risk because of small landing area, nonuniform wind and moving landing point. Therefore it is necessary for a trial of shipboard landing to be prepared and evaluated in a simulated oceanic environment on the ground. KARI has developed the environment of flight simulation based on motion platform which provides the movement of ship according to sea conditions and evaluated the shipboard landing. This paper describes the simulation environment of shipboard landing based on the motion platform and gives the simulation results and the evaluation effectiveness.