Faculty Mentor Name
Johann Dorfling
Format Preference
Poster
Abstract
First responders such as wildland firefighters, search and rescue crews, and disaster relief workers often operate in cellular-service-denied environments. This lack of long-range communication channels greatly inhibits the spread of vital information. Project LifeLink is Team Keryx’s capstone project designed to solve this issue as well as meeting the course goals of AE 420/421. The course goals for AE 420/421 are to utilize the skills and knowledge obtained in prior classes to design, develop, build, and test an aircraft tailored to a specific challenge. The students will work together in an organized structure and process to prepare them for industry after graduation. Project LifeLink is divided into three parts: the aircraft, a communications payload that will interact with the first responders, and a ground station that assists with communication. Team Keryx is responsible for the aircraft design, and a separate computer/electrical/software engineering capstone team is concurrently designing a communications payload that will be installed into the aircraft. For this project, Team Keryx will be designing and building a wind tunnel model to verify aerodynamic predictions and a vertical flight demonstrator to verify performance and payload integration functionality.
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Team Keryx: Project Lifelink
First responders such as wildland firefighters, search and rescue crews, and disaster relief workers often operate in cellular-service-denied environments. This lack of long-range communication channels greatly inhibits the spread of vital information. Project LifeLink is Team Keryx’s capstone project designed to solve this issue as well as meeting the course goals of AE 420/421. The course goals for AE 420/421 are to utilize the skills and knowledge obtained in prior classes to design, develop, build, and test an aircraft tailored to a specific challenge. The students will work together in an organized structure and process to prepare them for industry after graduation. Project LifeLink is divided into three parts: the aircraft, a communications payload that will interact with the first responders, and a ground station that assists with communication. Team Keryx is responsible for the aircraft design, and a separate computer/electrical/software engineering capstone team is concurrently designing a communications payload that will be installed into the aircraft. For this project, Team Keryx will be designing and building a wind tunnel model to verify aerodynamic predictions and a vertical flight demonstrator to verify performance and payload integration functionality.