Design and Analysis of MataMorph-3: A Fully Morphing UAV with Camber-Morphing Wings and Tail Stabilizers

Conventional aircraft use discrete flight control surfaces to maneuver during flight. The gaps and discontinuities of these generate drag, which degrades aerodynamic power efficiencies. Morphing technology aims replace conventional wings with advanced that can change their shape the minimum possible induced drag. This paper presents MataMorph-3, a fully morphing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) camber-morphing tail stabilizers. Although previous research has presented successful designs for wing core mechanisms, skin suffered from wrinkling, warping, or sagging problems result in reduced reliability efficiency. stabilizers MataMorph-3 feature hybrid ribs solid leading-edge sections house servomotors, compliant trailing-edge integrated flexible ribbons are connected servomotors camber-morph ribs. Thin laminated carbon fiber composite slides smoothly over rib upon morphing, guided by innovative sliders skin-supporting linkage mechanisms strategically located between Sample prototypes were built tested show effectiveness proposed design solutions enabling smooth camber-morphing. provides better alternative stretchable skins airplane through concept sliding.