Showing posts with label Electric (EAGLE) sUAS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Electric (EAGLE) sUAS. Show all posts

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Supervisory sUAS Platform Design Designations

Every aircraft design needs a designator or name. For the two small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) platforms (i.e., fixed-wing [FW] and rotary-wing [RW]) I am developing to support my supervisory control research, I chose:

Experimental, Analytics Gathering, Low-cost, Electric (EAGLE) sUAS

So the EAGLE-FW and EAGLE-RW sUAS, respectively. Considering the mascot of ERAU (my employer and the fund provider for the research) is an eagle, the selection seems appropriate. The primary purpose of these designs is to exhibit a low-cost proof of concept supervisory sUAS control system and perform a series of quantitative experiments to capture data (i.e., gather analytics) using the two customized electric powered vehicle elements (built off Storm 430 Helicopter and Lanyu FPVRaptor R/C platforms).