Team Members: @TA @SS@CS@SD @AR 

We have designed a lightweight surveillance drone. Drone surveillance enables surreptitiously gathering information about a target as captured from a distance or altitude. Drones’ flight capabilities, small size and ability to withstand harsh environments mean they can often survey subjects that might not be accessible otherwise and can access a first-person view that would normally be impossible for the photographer. Drones combined with computer vision, face recognition, object recognition and other tracking technologies are essentially flying robots. 

Application Used: Partial use of CATIA X-Design, Life Cycle, Bookmark and Product Structure Editor (Powered by Applications) to manage the versions.

Glimpses during the development of the model: 

Reason to select this Design:-

More Natural Flight Dynamics: Tri-rotor drones are able to be flown in a way that closely mirrors the flight of fixed-wing aircraft. That is, they can make banked turns, rapid forward flight and accelerate or decelerate in a way that is very intuitive. Quad-rotors, on the other hand, are less intuitive to fly and must be operated much more like a single-rotor helicopter. The tri-rotor design and pivoting tail yaw mechanism allow the Switchblade to have all the advantages of both styles of aircraft – intuitive, natural forward flight and simple hover, take-off and landing.

Larger Props: Using three props, rather than four, means that the space between them can be larger which in turn allows larger, more efficient props to be used. These can rotate at a slower speed than equivalent four-rotor designs which allow for more efficient flight and hover capabilities.