This is the first flight video of the Embry-Riddle IARC Quadrotor. This will be our fourth year in the IARC competition, we are moving away from our award winning monocopter platform this year in favor of a quadrotor. It will be fully autonomous by the time the IARC competition rolls around this summer.
Some specs:
Autopilot: HoverflyPro
Motors: Scorpion SII-2208-1280
Props: Draganfly Innovations 8x4.5
ESC: CastleCreations Thunderbird 36
Tx/Rx: Spektrum Dx6i Tx and AR6100e Rx
Frame: Black sections are FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) printed PolyCarbonate, White section is FDM printed PC-ABS. Build-to-fly time: about 3 hours total for the machine to print all four ducts and about 15 minutes for us to assemble and fly. (not including shipping time from Boeing)
Some info on us:
The Robotics Association at Embry-Riddle is a multidisciplinary student organization that operates Unmanned and Autonomous Vehicle Systems of all shapes and sized. We are the only school on the planet to compete in all 5 major AUVSI student competitions (IGVC, RoboBoat, SUAS, IARC, RoboSub) we also compete in the NASA lunabotics competition.
Hopefully after finals and as things progress more video and information will be posted on:
https://www.youtube.com/user/RAERRobots
http://clubs.db.erau.edu/dbrobots/
or follow us on Facebook at Robotics Association at Embry-Riddle or on twitter @RAERrobotics
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Build-to-fly time: about 3 hours total for the machine to print all four ducts and about 15 minutes for us to assemble and fly. (not including shipping time from Boeing)
Its always nice to have good connections....:-)
Could you share the cad files? Native, Object or STL files would be great. I happen to have an FDM in my shop.
@Gianluca Truda
Thanks for the kind words.
The team consists of 7 engineering students and we have been working on this for a little less than 15 weeks.
The total project cost is approximately $500 excluding the frame and the Hoverfly
@melmac
It is a custom airframe designed by our IARC student team and is manufactured/donated by Boeing.
As far as ordering one if you had a CAD model you could send the design to a 3D fabhouse/Direct Digital Manufacturing facility like those run by Stratasys through the RedEye service and have it printed.
http://www.redeyeondemand.com/
For the sake of completeness the HoverflyPro, now available, is our off the shelf autopilot. Ours was donated by the folks over at Hoverfly Technologies and we have been very impressed with how stable it is, and how easy it is to operate (a complete turnkey solution).
So if you were interested in building the quad you saw flying all the parts are available in one form or another. We are keeping a build log on RCgroups under the Hoverfly tab.
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1330011
Unobtanium? Not even with a prescription from the UAV gods?
I think you can interpret the frame material "Fused Deposition Modeling" as "Unobtainium".
Thank you for your posting. How difficult is it to order a frame?