2022 Requirement Questions

Owned by Daniel Puratich
2023-01-10
1 min read

  • 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?)

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