Transcript Coandă effect UAV - COST 804 Training School

Coandă effect UAV
Ionuţ Verzea
Universitatea Transilvania
România
Photo from Aesir-UAV.com
Coandă effect UAV (unmaned aerial vehicle)
Goals:
• develop an energy efficient UAV, easy to control and deploy in the
field
• try to make the UAV operate in an autonomous mode
• research the swarm behavior and try to implement it over a small to
medium sized network made from this type of devices
• research about energy efficiency for sensor grids used in this kind of
mobile devices
• bring a new point of view over the way sensors array might be
deployed/picked up in remote areas
Coandă effect UAV
What have I done so far:
• study different sensor in order to chose the most energy
efficient/weightless one for the system
• check to see if a Real Time Operating System might be
implemented on such a device or try to use embedded software
• study network protocols used in small to medium sized wireless
array sensor
Coandă effect UAV
Future usage of device
• Search and rescue operations
• Deploy sensors array in remote or hard accessible areas
• Transport small cargo (up to 5-10 kg) without the need of a human
operator
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• Research, test and development of communication protocols and
energy management system for different network configuration.
Coandă effect UAV
Who have done research so far?
• Henri Coanda – Romanian aeronautical engineer born in 1886.
Patent No.2,108,652 dated February 15, 1938 concerned airflow
acceleration over the periphery of a concave disc
• Geoff Hatton – British inventor, built a small UAV based on the
“Coanda effect”
• Aesir-UAS in the GFS Project, have done projects that were later
overtaken by US Army for future development and utilization.