Design-Build-Vertical Flight
Background
DBVF is an eVTOL (electric-powered remote-control vertical take-off and landing) vehicle competition students design, build, and test an eVTOL aircraft to meet an objective during a flyoff in Maryland.
Goals and Objectives
This spring quarter, our goal is to set a foundation for next year by completing the deliberation and design phases based on this year's competition objective: fly an eVTOL, following the requirements in this year's Request for Proposal document, that can traverse a 1200-ft course with a payload system and drop as many 8-oz water bottles as possible within 10 minutes inside waypoints of successively decreasing diameter in successive laps. Our run during winter quarter is also listed below.
Preliminary sketches: Completed February 6th
Preliminary Design: Completed February 26th
Technical Report on Design: Completed March 3rd
Research and Choose Another Configuration: April 29th
Fabricate and Test Individual Components: June 10th
Team Contacts
Team Members:
Asher Ding (asherd1@uci.edu)
Nathan Horvitz (nhorvitz@uci.edu)
Aditya Sawant (sawantan@uci.edu)
Advisor
Dr. Solmaz Kia (solmaz@uci.edu)
