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Title: Fly without borders with additive manufacturing : a microscale tilt-rotor tricopter design
Authors: Lee, Wilson Ying Jun
Mehndiratta, Mohit
Kayacan, Erdal
Keywords: 3D Printing
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Prototyping
Issue Date: 2018
Source: Lee, W. Y. J., Mehndiratta, M., & Kayacan, E. (2018). Fly without borders with additive manufacturing : a microscale tilt-rotor tricopter design. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Progress in Additive Manufacturing (Pro-AM 2018), 256-261. doi:10.25341/D43K5G
Conference: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Progress in Additive Manufacturing (Pro-AM 2018)
Abstract: This paper presents a lightweight and fully customized fabrication of a 3D printed microscale tilt-rotor tricopter for search and rescue missions in tight and uncertain environments where size, agility, cost, and manufacturing time could be of essence. Particularly, we utilize additive manufacturing for its advantages in low-cost customization of complex lightweight systems, and rapid on-demand printing and fabrication of parts to meet urgent mission requirements. Considering the mission requisites, the microscale tilt-rotor tricopter frame is designed and optimized in a computer-aided design software to compactly incorporate the electronics with minimal parts and weight. For the desired weight and durability, the parts are printed with acrylonitrile butadiene styrene in a desktop 3D printer. These methods produce a lowcost and agile microscale tilt-rotor tricopter weighing 532g and sizing 168 (radius) × 98 (height) mm that can be fully printed in less than 10 hours. Furthermore, we also demonstrate its tracking control in an indoor motion capture system environment utilizing a nonlinear model predictive control framework, which is implemented on an on-board Raspberry Pi 3 embedded processor.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88562
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45815
DOI: 10.25341/D43K5G
Schools: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 
Research Centres: Singapore Centre for 3D Printing 
Rights: © 2018 Nanyang Technological University. Published by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Fulltext Permission: open
Fulltext Availability: With Fulltext
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