This program is for optimizing the design of aircraft using simple optimization techniques. The initial intended purpose for this program is to opimize a UAV design that can be manufactured by the undergraduate students of Triton Unmanned Aerial Systems (Triton UAS), a student project-team at UCSD, to use in the SUAS competition hosted by the AUVSI Seafarer Chapter.
Everything is written in MATLAB, so MATLAB is required to run it.
Airfoil optimization (Windows): Additionally, the XFoil executables and XFoil folder should be added at carbon-copy/MATLAB/Airfoil for the proper operating system. You can also figure this out from their inclusion in the .gitignore file. XFoil download and licensing can be found here: https://web.mit.edu/drela/Public/web/xfoil/
Airfoil optimization (Linux): xfoil can be downloaded with sudo apt install xfoil
If there is an error when running the airfoil optimization, make sure the correct lines are uncommented for your operating system in: carbon-copy/MATLAB/Airfoil/ClCdData.m (lines 17-20) carbon-copy/MATLAB/Airfoil/modify_airfoil.m (lines 34-38)
Andrew Fletcher Allyson Chen Kevin Vo Erik Lovekin Tsz-Wai Kwok Kaelan Tan