Presentation Slides Link: https://app.pitch.com/app/presentation/e85a8c0a-5551-45b1-97f3-d82d245a0bbe/082ee45a-ddbc-4f4e-bec5-26ac37454fb2/58ba1ce9-3af8-4e8b-8c74-8dabb2007959
Slide 1: Title Slide (5 sec) - Dhruv Upadhyay
Slide 2: Introduction (Team Introduction & Member Expertise) (1 min)
Dhruv:
Executive Director, responsible for overall team operations and direction
Ethan:
Electrical Lead: responsible for wiring the drone and testing electrical systems
Ayoung:
Work on sensor driver integration and testing.
Hamza:
Nathan:
Slide 3: Introducing Icarus (UAMS Design) (3 min)
Picture of Icarus & General Icarus Introduction - Dhruv Upadhyay
Buzzwords
Adaptability (Dhruv Upadhyay) - Able to perform efficiently in any environment regardless of weather and distance.
Problem Statement: Big city airports are not easily accessible and require a significant amount of space of runways
Quadplane, quad for constrained takeoff/landings (e.g. urban environments), fixed-wing for longer-distance operations
Modularity (Nathan Green) - Movable cabin, variable cargo (can move the cabin around)
Add graph about different applications
Different cabin design can easily be added for varying number of passengers, different occupants (e.g. Cargo)
Convenience - Ayoung Eun (French)
Supports autonomous operations via multiple cameras and redundant sensors
Less human staff required to operate the system
Problems that we will be solving:
Since COVID, there was pilot shortage to operate aircraft.
Also, the price to operate such machine increases as the day goes by. To address this issue…
Easy to maintain through removable landing gear, wings, wing-spars, etc. ‘- That’s modularity
Slide 4: Use Cases (1.5 min) - Ethan Abraham
Long Range Passenger Transport
We have designed Icarus with two key use cases in mind, which make it the ideal solution to urban air transport.
The first, is long range passenger transport. Passengers want to be able to travel longer distances in a more efficient manner. Icarus in its fixed-wing configuration can provide 30 minutes of flight time and 40 km of travel.
Furthermore, Icarus will be flying in high-density areas with skyscrapers and other aircrafts. Therefore it is imperative that it has collision detection and avoidance technology. Icarus was designed with these safety concerns in mind, by featuring 3 different camera perspectives, a controlled lighting system for night-time travel, and a wide variety of sensors so that we can get information on all aspects of the aircraft at any given time.
On-Demand Passenger Transport
The second key use case is on-demand passenger transport. In a big city environment, a common problem is often transporting multiple passengers to different destinations around the city.
Adaptability between quad and fixed-wing allows for landing in constrained locations where a fixed-wing cannot land
Modularity of cabin allows for different sizes of passenger cabins
Autonomous capabilities offers further convenience as ____. Since Icarus is able to carry out 100s of trips a day, Icarus is integrated with cloud computing to calculate optimized routes to deliver as many passengers as possible as efficiently as possible
Slide 5: Conclusion & Why Icarus? (1.5 min) - Hamza Ali
Loopback to three major points for Icarus (Adaptability, Modularity, Convenience)
These three key points make our drone very effective for use in various applications such as long range passenger transport and point-to-point pickup and dropoff
Features such as hybrid quad/fixed-wing and autonomous operations allow for more efficient and less human-centric operations