1. Fixed and Rotary Wing UAV Project
Prof. Jeremy Laliberté and Salman Shafi
Winter 2019

2. 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

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

4. Quad Propeller CFD Pressure distribution around propeller
Single propeller wake

5. Wind Tunnel Testing

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

7. 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