Advanced Aero Vehicle Group General Meeting September 2, 2014

Agenda Safety Reminder New Work Area Team and Subgroup Presentations Subgroup Signups Workshops

New Work Area Farthest cubby on the right, closest to shop manager’s office Sharing with MRDT (most likely) Will begin moving this week

Safety Reminder Always wear your safety equipment in the SDELC Remind others Failure to do so will result in loss of SDELC/machine access until retraining. Safety Glasses for sale: $2/pair Sign up now, pay for and receive them next week

Rocket Team

Competition IREC Basic Category 10000 ft altitude 10 lb payload NASA ?

Last Year NASA Competition (Late Entry) Struggled Catching Up New Motor Fed Staging Design

Midwest Power Team Building Event Rocket Workshop Don’t know if it will be funded by team or not Great intro into High Power Rocketry

Subgroups Juan – Electronics Daniel – Testing and Integrations Alex – Aero. and Propulsion Aaron – Manufacturing and Design

Electronics We do all the electronics! Altimeters Microcontrollers General circuitry Guidance? And more…

No Experience Required! Breadboarding workshop? We will help you out along the way

Testing and Integration Brand new! We make sure it works! Ensure all parts fit together Still working on testing facilities Test possible ideas Also de facto R&D group

Manufacturing & Design Structural Design of the rocket Mainly design first half Subscale rocket Spring semester is mainly build SolidWorks/NX/AutoCAD

Aerodynamics and Propulsion Work with M&D to integrate our findings into final design Aerodynamic design with rocket Nosecone, fin, and parachute design CG,CP,SM Motor selection!!! Work on CFD.

SAE Aero Design Team Aerospace oriented student design team Design, construct, and test aircraft Participate in SAE Aero Design Competition

Competition Summary 8 lb plane 15 lbs static payload 3 lbs sand bag dropped within 50 ft of target First Person View system Data Acquisition Stytsem .46 in3 engine

Last Year First Team to successfully complete mission 2nd place in payload drop 4th place overall

Sub-Groups Design and Manufacturing Structures Aerodynamics Electronics Research and Development Propulsion

Design & Manufacturing

We Use Solidworks Don’t worry if you don’t know anything about modeling, I will be holding seminars later this week (expect an email from me if you’re on d&m about these seminars).

What Else Do We Learn? Water Jet Laser Cutting Carbon Layups Assembly Improvising Innovation

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Structures What we do Ensure structural integrity of the aircraft, keep it in one piece Test aircraft components to exceed design loads Conduct Stress, torsion, loading, and impact tests

Examples

Aerodynamics / Stability & Control Perform trade studies using xflr5 and MATLAB to optimize wing configuration Perform trade studies using MATLAB to optimize stability & control characteristics

Electronics

What does the Electronics group do? Provide real time flight data Provide First Person Video. Drop a 3lb bag on a target from an altitude of 100ft

What do we use? Ardupilot Mega 2.6 microcontroller. Telemetry kit. Ublox GPS Mission Planner software.

Propulsion Run and tune engine Integrate prop and tuned pipe Goal: Achieve maximum thrust

Research and Development Innovation focused Materials testing Manufacturing Methods Improved designs

Questions?

Workshops High Power Rocket Workshop – In Planning (before 10/31) Renovation Workshop – In Planning (Ongoing) Repairing old planes and rockets General construction practice Software Workshops – In Planning (Fall) NX and SolidWorks (signups today) Simulators like OpenRocket and RealFlight Breadboarding Workshop signups today