Fixed and Rotary Wing UAV Project Prof. Jeremy Laliberté and Salman Shafi Jeremy.laliberte@carleton.ca Winter 2019

Fixed and Rotary Wing UAV Project features two primary topics Remote Sensing UAVs GeoSurv II large fixed wing UAV Gyroplane UAV Design, analysis and ground testing High Performance Rotary Wing First Person View (FPV) racing quadcopter design and development Flight testing and performance improvements Cheaper: less fuel, no pilot cost Applications: Surveillance and security, geological survey, disaster monitoring (forest fire, oil spill) search and rescue

Fixed Wing UAV Development Air vehicle Design and Analysis Manufacturing and Testing Avionics design and development Flight Testing

Quad Propeller CFD Pressure distribution around propeller Single propeller wake

Wind Tunnel Testing

FPV Racer Structural Analysis Testing of new propellers. SEM image of carbon fibre drone arm.

Plans for 2019 Detailed design and construction of new Gyroplane UAV GeoSurv II ground and taxi testing Investigating autonomous flight of high performance rotary wing Detailed design and flight testing Longer term Scaling quadcopter technologies to full size personal aircraft