Perpustakaan Digital ITB

The needs of a medical cargo Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to assist distribution of medical goods was apparent, as it was experienced during Covid vaccine distribution in Indonesia remote region. UAV is a complex system which is composed of many subsystems and components. A means that could define the UAV as a system according to the requirements of the stakeholder should be used during the design process. A framework was proposed that could produce a potential design option. The framework was applied during conceptual design phase to enable exploration of UAV design concept. Model-Based Systems Engineering (SE) framework was used to define stakeholders, create viable Concept-of-Operations (ConOps), derive requirements, and decompose the UAV in system level. Optimization process would be used to produce optimized design options. A process was created to bridge the stakeholder requirements to design optimization variable. The process was able to translate the stakeholder requirements into the main design variables using House-of-Quality (HoQ) diagram. The optimization objective was set to minimize the UAV take-off mass for a selected population coverage based on communication coverage. The process was able to produce UAV design options that fulfilled the requirements. The UAV with Lift or Cruise propulsion configuration gave the lowest take-off mass. Modelling of the optimization enables analysis process with traceability diagram that shows which main design variables that influenced the Take-off Mass significantly. The framework was able to define main design variables for design optimization according to the stakeholder requirements that accommodate real condition.