1. Advanced Aero Vehicle Group
General Meeting September 2, 2014

2. Agenda Safety Reminder New Work Area Team and Subgroup Presentations
Subgroup Signups
Workshops

3. New Work Area
Farthest cubby on the right, closest to shop manager’s office
Sharing with MRDT (most likely)
Will begin moving this week

4. Safety Reminder Always wear your safety equipment in the SDELC
Remind others
Failure to do so will result in loss of SDELC/machine access until retraining.
Safety Glasses for sale: $2/pair
Sign up now, pay for and receive them next week

5. Rocket Team

6. Competition
IREC
Basic Category
10000 ft altitude
10 lb payload
NASA ?

7. Last Year NASA Competition (Late Entry) Struggled Catching Up
New Motor Fed Staging Design

8. Midwest Power Team Building Event Rocket Workshop
Don’t know if it will be funded by team or not
Great intro into High Power Rocketry

9. Subgroups Juan – Electronics Daniel – Testing and Integrations
Alex – Aero. and Propulsion
Aaron – Manufacturing and Design

10. Electronics We do all the electronics! Altimeters Microcontrollers
General circuitry
Guidance?
And more…

11. No Experience Required!
Breadboarding workshop?
We will help you out along the way

12. Testing and Integration
Brand new!
We make sure it works!
Ensure all parts fit together
Still working on testing facilities
Test possible ideas
Also de facto R&D group

13. Manufacturing & Design
Structural Design of the
rocket
Mainly design first half
Subscale rocket
Spring semester is mainly build
SolidWorks/NX/AutoCAD

14. Aerodynamics and Propulsion
Work with M&D to integrate our findings into final design
Aerodynamic design with rocket
Nosecone, fin, and parachute design
CG,CP,SM
Motor selection!!!
Work on CFD.

15. SAE Aero Design Team Aerospace oriented student design team
Design, construct, and test aircraft
Participate in SAE Aero Design Competition

16. Competition Summary 8 lb plane 15 lbs static payload
3 lbs sand bag dropped within 50 ft of target
First Person View system
Data Acquisition Stytsem
.46 in3 engine

17. Last Year First Team to successfully complete mission
2nd place in payload drop
4th place overall

18. Sub-Groups Design and Manufacturing Structures Aerodynamics
Electronics
Research and Development
Propulsion

19. Design & Manufacturing

20. We Use Solidworks
Don’t worry if you don’t know anything about modeling, I will be holding seminars later this week
(expect an from me
if you’re on d&m about these seminars).

21. What Else Do We Learn? Water Jet Laser Cutting Carbon Layups Assembly
Improvising
Innovation

22. JOIN TODAY!

23. Structures
What we do
Ensure structural integrity of the aircraft, keep it in one piece
Test aircraft components to exceed design loads
Conduct Stress, torsion, loading, and impact tests

24. Examples

25. Aerodynamics / Stability & Control
Perform trade studies using xflr5 and MATLAB to optimize wing configuration
Perform trade studies using MATLAB to optimize stability & control characteristics

26. Electronics

27. What does the Electronics group do?
Provide real time flight data
Provide First Person Video.
Drop a 3lb bag on a target from an altitude of 100ft

28. What do we use? Ardupilot Mega 2.6 microcontroller. Telemetry kit.
Ublox GPS
Mission Planner software.

29. Propulsion Run and tune engine Integrate prop and tuned pipe
Goal: Achieve maximum thrust

30. Research and Development
Innovation focused
Materials testing
Manufacturing Methods
Improved designs

31. Questions?

32. Workshops High Power Rocket Workshop – In Planning (before 10/31)
Renovation Workshop – In Planning (Ongoing)
Repairing old planes and rockets
General construction practice
Software Workshops – In Planning (Fall)
NX and SolidWorks (signups today)
Simulators like OpenRocket and RealFlight
Breadboarding Workshop signups today