SEMINAR on

Design and Working of Medium

Altitude Long Endurance MQ-1
PREDATOR

Presented by:
ANIL SHENOY
4PA06CS036
VIII CS

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 CONTENTS
 AN OVERVIEW OF MQ-1 PREDATOR SYSTEM

 DESIGN OVERVIEW OF PREDATOR

 DETAILED LOOK AT ALL THE PARTS

 PREDATOR SPECIFICATIONS

 SCOPE OF APPLICABILITY IN OUR CONTRY

 AREAS OF FUTURE RESEARCH

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RQ-1B/MQ-1 PREDATOR

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Medium Altitude Endurance UAS

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Design overview

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RQ-1B/MQ-1 PREDATOR IN AIR

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BACK-mounted propeller

 provides both drive

and lift.
 The drive shaft rotates
the Predator's two-
blade, variable-pitch
pusher propeller.
 alter the pitch of the
blades to increase or
decrease the altitude of
the plane and reach
speeds of up to 135
mph.

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Side yolk to engine and drive shaft
to propeller
 A Rotax 914, four-
cylinder, four-stroke,
101-HP engine

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Fuselage and Tail
 Slender fuselage and
inverted V-tail helps in
giving the flight
desired stability.
 A single rudder
beneath the aircraft
helps in steering it.
 fuselage of the
Predator is a mixture
of carbon and quartz
fibers

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  Full-color nose camera
that the pilot uses
primarily to navigate
the craft.

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Multispectral targeting system
 Variable aperture
camera
 Variable aperture
infrared camera for
low-light and night
viewing
 Synthetic aperture
radar (SAR) for seeing
through haze, clouds
or smoke.

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Multispectral Target System(MTS)
 AGM-114 Hellfire
missile targeting
system,
 electro-optical infrared
system(EOIR)-target
seen as white spots
 laser designator-guide
laser guided bombs
 laser illuminator-laser
target marker

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HELL FIRE MISSILES
 AGM-114 Hellfire
missile.
 Multi-platform missile

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Fuselage
 Forward and aft tanks

 two fuel tanks combined

carry up to 600 pounds
of 95-octane to 100-
octane of fuel

 Kill switch

 Ni-Cad battery packs

are housed in the
fuselage for backup
power

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 Predator specifications
 Length=26.7feet(320.4 in)
 Span=48.4feet(580.8 in)
 Height=6feet(72in)
 Data link=C-Band
 Endurance=20-24hrs
 Sensors=EOIR and SAR
 Operational altitude=26,000feet
 Take off weight=950Kgs
 Runway =1,500m*40m
 Weather limits(no rain no icing)
Take -Off cross winds-15 knots
Take -Off head winds- 30 knots
 Emergency Recovery:
parachute
 4,500,000 $(20.7 crores) Design and working of PREDATOR
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SCOPE OF UAV’S IN OUR
COUNTRY…

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AREAS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH
 Reconnaissance & Armed UAV

 Highly sensitive EOIR sensors & focused Camera vision

 Platoon or squad level & may be a small runway

 High Endurance with both propellant & battery switch over

capabilities

 Organic weapons or 20-40mm mortar round with specific

gaseous capabilities.

 Mission based payload capacity.

 Weather(wind ,foggy) independent.

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REFERENCES
 FMI 3-04.155,Army Unmanned Aircraft System
Operation
 Systems Decision Making in Systems Engineering and

Management. Parnell, G., Driscoll, P. and Henderson,

D. (2007)
 Small unit unmanned weapon system for today’s army-

IEEE Transaction on Systems and Information

Engineering Design Symposium. October 2007
 http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app2/index.
html

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 * [http://www.defense-update.com/products/p/predator.htm Predator Familiy Update]

 * [http://www.defense-update.com/features/du-2-05/feature-sensor.htm UAV Sensor

Applications]


* [http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=122 US Airforce Fact Sheet]

 * [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/06/02/wpred02.xml British
Daily Telegraph article - 'In Las Vegas a pilot pulls the trigger. In Iraq a Predator fires its
missile']
 * [http://www.uav.com/products/predator.html GA official predator site]
* [http://www.uav.com/home/index.html General Atomics Remotely Operated Aircraft Systems
official website]
* [http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123023469 Accident report from March 20,
2006 MQ-1L crash]
* [http://www.aeronautics.ru/official/lostuavs.htm Officially confirmed / documented NATO
UAV losses in the Balkans]
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22960101/ Missile strike emphasizes Al-Qaida]
* [http://science.howstuffworks.com/predator.htm How the Predator Works]
- Howstuffworks.com

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EXTRA “INFO”

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Predator engine can be compared
with snowmobiles
 A Rotax 914, four-
cylinder, four-stroke,
101-horsepower engine
turns the main drive
shaft of the predator.


http://www.youtube.com
/watch?
v=LTPHdLNcPUc&feature
=player_embedded

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Drive shaft
 A DRIVE SHAFT
transmitting
torque and
rotation, used to
connect other
components of a
drive train that
cannot be
connected
directly because
of distance or
the need to
allow for relative
movement
between them.

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 Fuselage describes the center section of the airframe about
which are oriented and attached the wing(s).
 The fuselage of the Predator is a mixture of carbon and
quartz fibers blended in a composite with Kevlar.
 Underneath the fuselage, the airframe is supported by a
Nomex, foam and wood laminate that is pressed together in
layers.
 Between each layer of laminate, a sturdy fabric is
sandwiched in to provide insulation to internal components.
 The rib work of the structure is built from a carbon/glass
fiber tape and aluminum. The sensor housing and wheels
are also aluminum.
 Quartz high mp & bp

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Wings , Starter/Alternator
 The edges of the wings are titanium and are
dotted with microscopic weeping holes that
allow an ethylene glycol solution to seep out
of internal reservoirs and breakdown ice that
forms on the wings during flight.
 Starter an electric motor for starting an

engine
 An alternator is an electromechanical device

that converts mechanical energy to electrical

energy in the form of alternating current

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FUEL TANKS , START AND STOP
 Forward and aft fuel tanks(At, near or towards
the stern or rear of a vessel) house rubberized
fuel bladders that are easy to fill through gas
caps located at the top of the fuselage.
 An operator STARTS the engine by attaching
the Starter/Ground Power Cart to the aircraft's
starter-control connector, located in the
ground panel on the outside of the plane.
 STOPS the engine by hitting a kill switch just
behind one of the wings on the side of the
plane.

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GROUND POWER UNIT

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KILL SWITCH TO STOP THE UAV

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LASER ILLUMINATOR AND LASER
DESIGNATOR

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