Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “2015-2016”
With final exams chasing our heels, UAV Forge wraps it up for the year. Here are the last tasks the teams have completed and their goals for next quarter. The Propulsion team has nearly completed a prototype structure of the tilt rotor set up. They have confirmed that the tandem software for the tilt rotor controller is working, but the …
We have a new 3D printer to help 3D print our parts! Propulsion team designed and printed the tilt rotor joint that allows the housing to rotate. To fit the joint into the housing, they had to cut rotor’s metal frame. Next they will work on the new flight controller and problem-solve some issues with the low servo angular range …
This last week we came together and took the feedback given from our presentation to help reorganize our priorities for the project over the next couple weeks. Currently we have settled on material and figured out ideal and minimal restraints for energy needed, size of the heater, and size of the solar panel. We are now looking to purchase a …
UAV Forge has had some interesting developments so far! The Propulsion team has been performing tilt-rotor spiral mode analysis to find ways to control how the plane moves. In addition, they want to create a new gimbal and test bench to experimentally prove their research ideas. The Mechanical Design team is working on designing three parts of the plane. First, …
The Thermal Energy team is currently working countless hours to fabricate 3 body-powered flashlights. The design includes cutting PVC pipe, various metals & polymers, using special thermal paste and epoxy, as well as wiring an entire voltage step-up regulator. A band saw was used to cut the foot-long PVC pipe in half for the base of the flashlight. Aluminum, steel, …
Finally, after all the hard work throughout the year, we successfully flew the Circular UAV during finals week! Special thanks to Professor Haithem Taha for advising our project, Colin Sledge for guiding us step by step through the whole process and piloting our UAV, and Terry Wang for providing advice, directions, and making our poster, presentations, and documentations look professional. …
The aerial wind turbine power team has designed a simple circuit, which includes a switch, a voltage regulator, a generator, a breadboard, and a pack of batteries. Through manual testing we were able to see that circuit design works and that the light bulb will light up.
We are assembling the prototype 2. We expect to have it done by the end of week 10
We have finished the fabrication of the hybrid engine mold. We expect to finish the composite hybrid engine by the end of week 10
We were able to make the wing frame by laser cutting the airfoil spars from plywood. The hard part was matching the dimensions of the front spar to the I-beam we made, so we had to re-dimension the design to match. Once we did that we attached all the pieces together and the wing frame was finished.
