Sponsored Project: TSoG X1Active

Sponsored Project: TSoG X1Active

Design / build / fly a fixed-wing RC aircraft from the ground up with a predefined payload and range.

A Kepler-level Aerospace Engineering project led by Raul Maldonado in collaboration with Aditya Ojha and Bryan Atanga.

Student Team: Vito "nufflee" Dz-P, Katherine Li, Aarush Das, Ishan Kumar and Aarish Rajwani

Sponsoring Patron: Nathan Bowyer

Began: June 9, 2020

Project Summary: The goal of this project is to design, build, and fly a Radio Controlled (RC) Aircraft from scratch. The aircraft will carry a payload to its destination. The design process will use a simplified simulation approach and the build process will use Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) parts to ease the difficulty of aircraft design.

This project will lay a foundation of knowledge and techniques for possible future aerospace projects.

Project Repository: https://github.com/TSoGiants/TSoG X1

Deliverables

An electric powered RC airplane will have the following requirements:

• The aircraft shall be controlable and stable in flight
• The aircraft shall be able to gather sensor data defined in the Sensor Package Capabilities
• The aircraft shall satisfy the minumum performance metrics defined in the Aircraft Performance Metrics section
• The aircraft shall be reasonably easy to transport and/or pack

Project Timeline

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Detailed Performance Metrics

Aircraft Specifications

• Cruising Altitude:
  • 25ft, MIN
  • 50ft, MID
  • 100ft, MAX
• Payload Capacity:
  • Mass of Sensor Package (TBD), MIN
• Flight Time:
  • 10 min, MIN
  • 30 min, MID
  • 60 min, MAX
• Runway Takeoff Distance:
  • 250ft, MAX (the shorter the better)

Sensor Package Specifications

Sensor Package needs to be able to measure and record…

• Angle of Attack (AoA), Sideslip
• Airspeed (scalar)
• Static Temperature of Air
• Static Pressure of Air

Additional parameters that would be nice to measure and record include...

• Dynamic Pressure of Air
• Orientation of Aircraft
• Position of Aircraft (ex. GPS)
• Velocity of Aircraft (in vector form)

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