UAV Forge: Controlled Landing System
Background:
UAV Forge is a multidisciplinary senior design project that focuses on using engineering fundamentals to design, build and program an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to complete aviation missions outlined by the AUVSI SUAS 2021. This year the team is focusing on making a hexacopter for the competition. Our main focus for the hexacopter is the landing system. Currently, we have a static landing system that consists of tubing. However, the static landing system affects the UAV’s landing and imaging capabilities. The current static landing system obstructs the vision of our LiDAR and imaging systems, reducing our performance in the ODCL, Mapping, and Moving Obstacle Avoidance tasks. Therefore, our team is focused on designing an adaptive landing gear to improve upon last year’s design. An adaptive landing gear will allow the UAV to adapt to any type of terrain and provide a sufficient amount of tilt resistance.
Goals and Objectives:
- Reduce the area of obstruction for the imaging and LiDAR systems.
- Increase the UAV’s survivability from unpredictable landings.
- Design a landing system to improve upon normal and moment force absorption.
- Design a Soldiworks CAD model and drawing of the final model.
- Fabricate the landing system under $800.
Team Contacts:
Mirella Cruz Trinidad: mcruztri@uci.edu
Kyle Laxamana: laxamank@uci.edu
Justin Matsui: jdmatsui@uci.edu
Alejandro Corona: acorona6@uci.edu
Sponsor/Advisor:
David Copp: dcopp@uci.edu
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