What is the max mass of the vehicle?
How big are the objects that need to be picked up? What are the dimensions/mass?
One engine or two engines? Engines = propeller motors
Redundancy?
What is the desired flight time (how long you’re in the air for)?
What is the desired range (how far you can go)?
Graeme Williamson says you have to optimize for either range or flight time
Cruising speed is determined from this optimization
Cruising speed will be different WITH and WITHOUT payload
Optimize for two masses
Is speed variable/controllable?
What is the desired altitude?
What is the desired cruising speed?
Propellers are directly related to cruising speed
You can change the angle of attack on propellers themselves to optimize range/flight time/cruising speed
Variable pitch propellers change the angle of attack of the propeller
Fixed pitch
Do we want to do onboard computer vision?
What competition are we focusing (international?)
General
Content
Integrations