Vertical Takeoff Fixed Wing Aircraft

Ariel Tamayev (ME)
Levi Sheridan (ME)
Benjamin Meiner (ME)
Calder Leppitsch (ME)

Advised by Professors David Wootton and D.M. Luchtenburg

The Vertical Flight Society's Design-Build-Vertical Flight Competition prompts students to design and build an unmanned aerial vehicle with vertical and forward flight capabilities. Our solution is a hybrid quadcopter which uses a wing as the main frame. In horizontal flight, the wing increases efficiency by generating a significant portion of lift. We integrated optimized control to allow the vehicle to operate in both manual and autonomous modes using Pixhawk's open source framework.

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