Project:Tiamat
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Tri-rotor UAV drone
At uni I was thinking about different multi rotor copter configurations and what's the most efficient number of thrusters to give the aircraft more maneuverability and long distance flight efficiency.
Background
I came to the conclusion that as long as you can vary the thruster direction with regards to each other (directly or through a base) you can maneuver in any direction, so essentially 2 will be fine and the likes of the V22 Osprey use this concept already. However of one thruster malfunctions you lose control completely. So ideally you'd need a 3 rotor configuration. That way if one dies then as long as your thrusters can produce a third more torque that required to fly the drone you should still be able to land the drone safely.
Status
- Managed to get hold of some of the motors and speed controllers at the space
- There was a conduit built quadcopter on top of the Logic Analyzer with no "Do not hack" sign on it, after asking on IRC and the mailing list for the owner I got no response as to who owns it is so I'm putting it to good use! However I can put it back together if need be. Please see rules 7 and 8!
