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Im looking for a freelancer to provide physics and mechanical engineering advice, full Onshape CAD development, and 2D/3D animations for a custom Coaxial UAV project with two main milestones (one due this Friday morning PT and the other due end of this weekend) with the understanding that I am open to post-deadline iterations with additional milestone payments depending on the scope of the changes.
For background information, the primary goal of this project is to build a compact, coaxial, autonomous, dual-Planet (Mars and Earth) UAV Operational Replacement System designed to fly within a collaborative drone swarm that can instantly and autonomously deploy a backup drone to replace any unit that crashes mid-mission without stopping (the design will be modeled to/adjusted after Stanford's Firefly Coaxial UAV).
Cylindrical shaped UAV (Keeping the coaxial blades inside a rigid cylinder, the outer walls acts as a ducted fan shroud). The cylinder walls trap the air and force it to blast straight down out in a focused column, increasing thrust efficiency. The cylindrical shaped UAV also creates collision tolerance because there aren't exposed blades like in a regular quadrotor. Crashing into objects is less of a risk. It provides the uniform 360° structural balance, keeping the Center of Gravity down the center-line of the thrust tunnel (passive stability). Also, by keeping a compact cylindrical shape it reduces drag, prevents it from being pushed by winds, and keeps inner el...
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Im looking for a freelancer to provide physics and mechanical engineering advice, full Onshape CAD development, and 2D/3D animations for a custom Coaxial UAV project with two main milestones (one due this Friday morning PT and the other due end of this weekend) with the understanding that I am open to post-deadline iterations with additional milestone payments depending on the scope of the changes.
For background information, the primary goal of this project is to build a compact, coaxial, autonomous, dual-Planet (Mars and Earth) UAV Operational Replacement System designed to fly within a collaborative drone swarm that can instantly and autonomously deploy a backup drone to replace any unit that crashes mid-mission without stopping (the design will be modeled to/adjusted after Stanford's Firefly Coaxial UAV).
Cylindrical shaped UAV (Keeping the coaxial blades inside a rigid cylinder, the outer walls acts as a ducted fan shroud). The cylinder walls trap the air and force it to blast straight down out in a focused column, increasing thrust efficiency. The cylindrical shaped UAV also creates collision tolerance because there aren't exposed blades like in a regular quadrotor. Crashing into objects is less of a risk. It provides the uniform 360° structural balance, keeping the Center of Gravity down the center-line of the thrust tunnel (passive stability). Also, by keeping a compact cylindrical shape it reduces drag, prevents it from being pushed by winds, and keeps inner electronics safe).
A hexadecogonal dome cap for solar panels(Tracks the sun at all angles without moving parts and functions as a rocket nose cone for launch)
Honeycomb side grille for air intake
A small cone on the inside to increase thrust
1 ~4 Foot drone propeller (attachable and detachable to a mount on the top) optimized the air density of Mars.
5 of these UAVs that will autonomously work together to complete tasks.
Batteries on the bottom outside of each cylindrical UAV (Cannot be on the inside because it will interfere with air flow or make it top-heavy)
One of the biggest tasks within this is that when turning, the overall UAV cannot turn, so I'll use thrust-vectoring (Further discussion in meeting)
The design should be done in max detail, ready for wiring and fabrication. All factors, from electrical components, fasteners, etc. should be considered and accounted for in the CAD. By there should also a 3D animation for visual reference. Overall design is fairly planned & basic CAD started.
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Im looking for a freelancer to provide physics and mechanical engineering advice, full Onshape CAD development, and 2D/3D animations for a custom Coaxial UAV project with two main milestones (one due this Friday morning PT and the other due end of this weekend) with the understanding that I am open to post-deadline iterations with additional milestone payments depending on the scope of the changes...
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Im looking for a freelancer to provide physics and mechanical engineering advice, full Onshape CAD development, and 2D/3D animations for a custom Coaxial UAV project with two main milestones (one due this Friday morning PT and the other due end of this weekend) with the understanding that I am open to post-deadline iterations with additional milestone payments depending on the scope of the changes.
For background information, the primary goal of this project is to build a compact, coaxial, autonomous, dual-Planet (Mars and Earth) UAV Operational Replacement System designed to fly within a collaborative drone swarm that can instantly and autonomously deploy a backup drone to replace any unit that crashes mid-mission without stopping (the design will be modeled to/adjusted after Stanford's Firefly Coaxial UAV).
Cylindrical shaped UAV (Keeping the coaxial blades inside a rigid cylinder, the outer walls acts as a ducted fan shroud). The cylinder walls trap the air and force it to blast straight down out in a focused column, increasing thrust efficiency. The cylindrical shaped UAV also creates collision tolerance because there aren't exposed blades like in a regular quadrotor. Crashing into objects is less of a risk. It provides the uniform 360° structural balance, keeping the Center of Gravity down the center-line of the thrust tunnel (passive stability). Also, by keeping a compact cylindrical shape it reduces drag, prevents it from being pushed by winds, and keeps inner electronics safe).
A hexadecogonal dome cap for solar panels(Tracks the sun at all angles without moving parts and functions as a rocket nose cone for launch)
Honeycomb side grille for air intake
A small cone on the inside to increase thrust
1 ~4 Foot drone propeller (attachable and detachable to a mount on the top) optimized the air density of Mars.
5 of these UAVs that will autonomously work together to complete tasks.
Batteries on the bottom outside of each cylindrical UAV (Cannot be on the inside because it will interfere with air flow or make it top-heavy)
One of the biggest tasks within this is that when turning, the overall UAV cannot turn, so I'll use thrust-vectoring (Further discussion in meeting)
The design should be done in max detail, ready for wiring and fabrication. All factors, from electrical components, fasteners, etc. should be considered and accounted for in the CAD. By there should also a 3D animation for visual reference. Overall design is fairly planned & basic CAD started.
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