Meistaravörn við verkfræðideild: Sindri Þór Jónsson
MSc í hátækniverkfræði
Föstudaginn 26.maí kl. 13:00 mun Sindri Þór Jónsson verja 60 ECTS verkefni sitt til meistaragráðu í hátækniverkfræði „Self-Adapting Landing Gear for Multi-rotor Drones„. Fyrirlesturinn fer fram í M103 og eru öll velkomin.
Nemandi: Sindri Þór Jónsson
Leiðbeinandi: Joseph Timothy Foley og Marcel Kyas
Prófdómari: Yonatan Afework Tesfahunegn
Útdráttur
Today drones are widely used to carry out various tasks in diverse settings. Most drones come equipped with a fixed two-legged landing gear which is meant for landing on relatively flat surfaces. In many applications, a dynamic landing gear that can adapt itself to uneven surfaces would be beneficial.
This thesis investigates the feasibility of designing and developing a landing gear for drones that is capable of adapting itself to land on uneven surfaces while minimizing the impact on the flight capabilities of the drone. A three-legged landing gear was designed and developed to fit a hexacopter drone. The landing gear can sense the landing area and adapt itself accordingly, by creating vertical displacements between its legs.
Data was collected with handheld experiments and flight testing to evaluate the performance of the landing gear.
The results of the handheld experiments show that the landing gear is able to adapt itself to uneven surfaces and slopes up to a 40 degree angle.
The flight testing results show, with some exceptions, that the landing gear is capable of landing a drone on uneven surfaces such as sloped grass and hardened lava fields.
