Presentation Summary

Owned by Ethan Abraham
Last updated: 2023-05-05
2 min read

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, many people want to travel as close to their desired location as possible. Therefore it is important to maximize the utility of our aircraft, so that once one trip has been completed, another can immediately begin, as if it were an Uber in the sky. Icarus is able to use cloud-computing to optimize routes for passengers based on trip requests made for the vehicle. Additionally, as Dhruv previously mentioned, our quad mode allows for precise vertical take-off and landing and our computer vision systems that we trained in-house allow us to find safe places to land near the passenger’s destination.

 

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

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