What is it about?
This work describes the design process that a senior-design-capstone team took to ideate, analyze, prototype and test a compact system to drop payloads from small unmanned aerial systems. The system autonomously navigates to a target on the ground using a steerable parachute and GPS coordinates, then employs camouflage and 3D-printed lattices to protect the payload on impact.
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Why is it important?
This provides great insight into the design process to come up with a unique solution to a challenging problem.
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We brought together students from multiple geographically separated universities to design a system to meet DoD requirements. All learned a great deal about design, engineering, and working together as a team.
Jason Christopher
United States Air Force Academy
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This page is a summary of: Developing an Autonomous, Arrested, Protected, Covert Small Payload Delivery Technique from an Unmanned Aerial System, January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA),
DOI: 10.2514/6.2024-0475.
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