Faculty Mentor Name
Joseph Smith, Johann Dorfling
Format Preference
Poster
Abstract
Every year AIAA issues a challenge to any undergraduate universities willing to meet it: to build an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed to mission and product characteristics. This year the UAVs are to carry two different payloads in four missions with varying objectives, take-off distances, flight times and flight distances. The two payloads are large plunger syringes and mock vaccine vial packages. The Embry-Riddle Prescott team has decided that the best way to approach these competitions is to split responsibilities evenly between four integrated product teams (IPTs); Aerodynamics, Structures, Propulsion and Missions. In the early stages of the design process, Missions is responsible for deciding the objectives of the team’s design considering the mission constraints. This year Missions recommended the UAV carry 4 packages and 50 syringes due to energy constraints and to balance quantity against loading time. The Aerodynamics IPT is responsible for weighing the concerns of the Missions, Structures, and Propulsion teams to develop a configuration for the UAV. This year the Aerodynamics IPT decided on a high “Hershey bar” wing with an aspect ratio of 7, a conventional tail, and tricycle landing gear. While Structures is modeling and building the plane, Propulsion does research for their recommendation of the motors and propellers, which are then mounted on various prototypes to test their viability. This year Propulsion recommended Sunny Sky V4014 motors and 10x16E propellers. The team is currently refining the integrated prototypes, with delivery mechanisms built by the Missions IPT.
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AIAA Design Build Fly Humanitarian UAV
Every year AIAA issues a challenge to any undergraduate universities willing to meet it: to build an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed to mission and product characteristics. This year the UAVs are to carry two different payloads in four missions with varying objectives, take-off distances, flight times and flight distances. The two payloads are large plunger syringes and mock vaccine vial packages. The Embry-Riddle Prescott team has decided that the best way to approach these competitions is to split responsibilities evenly between four integrated product teams (IPTs); Aerodynamics, Structures, Propulsion and Missions. In the early stages of the design process, Missions is responsible for deciding the objectives of the team’s design considering the mission constraints. This year Missions recommended the UAV carry 4 packages and 50 syringes due to energy constraints and to balance quantity against loading time. The Aerodynamics IPT is responsible for weighing the concerns of the Missions, Structures, and Propulsion teams to develop a configuration for the UAV. This year the Aerodynamics IPT decided on a high “Hershey bar” wing with an aspect ratio of 7, a conventional tail, and tricycle landing gear. While Structures is modeling and building the plane, Propulsion does research for their recommendation of the motors and propellers, which are then mounted on various prototypes to test their viability. This year Propulsion recommended Sunny Sky V4014 motors and 10x16E propellers. The team is currently refining the integrated prototypes, with delivery mechanisms built by the Missions IPT.