Drone - Mechanical
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Overview
All custom designed carbon fiber hardware was created on Fusion 360, then routed out on a desktop CNC. The payload rail was 3d printed in a combination of ABS and PLA. This material was chosen to break during a crash, preserving the functionality of the sensors and gimbal motors.
There is 1 bottom facing camera, a gimbaled forward facing camera, 1 HSI camera, 1 bottom facing lidar and the built in flight control found on the pixhawk. This provides the drone with adequate information for autonomous takeoff and landing, aluminum can manipulation, and information about the wildlife mission. The team determined it was advantageous to mount the HSI camera onto the drone rather than creating a mechanical arm to provide a top down view of the wildlife mission models, providing more accurate location data quicker.
Additional Development - Dust Shoe
Carbon Fiber provided the team a unique manufacturing challenge. The team developed a dust shoe to attach onto the OMIO Mill to catch the airborne carbon fiber particles during cutting. This dust shoe works in conjunction with the coolant pump (in this case water) to first ground airborne particles and then catches the carbon fiber water mixture with bristles to reduce mess.
