Friday 2 August 2013
October '12 :
My work in the team started with the lokarpan ceremony and public flight of Aarush X1, the next generation urban UAV built by the senior students in my team. Even though i didn't build the it, yet its worth posting a picture of it....
The real work started in December when the conceptual design of "the new one" began for SUAS '13. it was a month full of YouTube videos and tutorials trying to learn solidworks to make the CAD model for the new plane. After spending hours on my laptop this was the final result
January '13- March '13 :
May '13: Bad times yet again, exams!!!
June '13- July '13: As the team flew off to Maryland, USA for the competition. The summer break was spent on learning about Finite Element Analysis (FEA). All the time was spent in learning the basics of FEA along with simple problems on CFD and static structural analysis using ansys 14.
A bump in the road during the summers delayed the publishing of this blog however my main target would be to constantly update my success's , failure's, problems faced and their solutions which come up during my work leading up to designing of the next aircraft we make.
Thanks for reading!!
My work in the team started with the lokarpan ceremony and public flight of Aarush X1, the next generation urban UAV built by the senior students in my team. Even though i didn't build the it, yet its worth posting a picture of it....
Aarush X1 at Karnal Airport
November '12 : End Semester Examinations!!!!! huh bad times... :P
December '12 :The real work started in December when the conceptual design of "the new one" began for SUAS '13. it was a month full of YouTube videos and tutorials trying to learn solidworks to make the CAD model for the new plane. After spending hours on my laptop this was the final result
CAD model of Aarush-M
The model we designed was just a smaller version of aarush X1. We wanted to bring our innovative inverted v-tail design of Aarush X1 to the competition but since the competition has a size and weight limit for the competing aircraft's hence the smaller, similar aircraft with the similar name, Aarush-M was built.
These three months were the most tiring and hectic months of my life. The fabrication of Aarush-M was completely indigenous. These three months were the introduction to various composite construction techniques involving glass fiber and carbon fiber. Techniques like wet layup vacuum bagging and vacuum infusion were used in making the fuselage, wing and tail skins and the landing gear. Various mould making techniques like fiber glass moulding, router cut MDF moulding. The main aim during the fabrication was to reduce the weight of the plane as compared to its predecessor. This was followed by integration of the avionics with the airframe the make the complete UAS.
Fuselage Plug
Fiber Glass Moulding Of the Fuselage Plug
Fuselage Mould
The Carbon Fibre Fuselage Body
Internal Structure Of the Left Wing
Completed Left wing
31st March 2013- The First Flight!!!
Aarush-M at Bhiwani Airport
April '13:
The tedious days of flight testing. Preparing for Suas '13.June '13- July '13: As the team flew off to Maryland, USA for the competition. The summer break was spent on learning about Finite Element Analysis (FEA). All the time was spent in learning the basics of FEA along with simple problems on CFD and static structural analysis using ansys 14.
A bump in the road during the summers delayed the publishing of this blog however my main target would be to constantly update my success's , failure's, problems faced and their solutions which come up during my work leading up to designing of the next aircraft we make.
Thanks for reading!!
