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Remote Control Helicopter. Group 9 Moiz Kapadia Adam Golembeski Eric Silk Paul DiFilipo. Motivation. A majority of the members are pursuing the aerospace option. Interested to learn and understand the dynamics of a helicopter.
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Remote Control Helicopter Group 9 Moiz Kapadia Adam Golembeski Eric Silk Paul DiFilipo
Motivation • A majority of the members are pursuing the aerospace option. • Interested to learn and understand the dynamics of a helicopter. • The RC Dragonfly posed as an appropriate challenge for 4 group members.
How the RC Dragonfly Works • Helicopters generate lift by creating a pressure differential across the blade • The motion of the swash plate regulates the forward, backward, left & right motion • Yaw is controlled by the speed of the tail rotor
How the RC Dragonfly Works con’t.. • Flybars work in conjunction with the swash plate to guide the roll & pitch • Servo motors control the motion of the swash plate • This is a fixed pitch model, meaning the main rotors are rigid to the shaft.
Major Components • Battery Tray • Tail Rotor • Main Chassis and Landing Gear • Main Rotor • Swash Plate • Body
Battery Tray • Mirror, extrude, and cut. • Basic constraints such as axis align, datum plane offset and mate was used.
Tail Rotor • Revolve, extrude, mirror, shell methods were implemented in modeling. • Pin connections. • Gear connections made in mechanism mode
Chassis and Landing Gear • Mirror, extrude, cut, sweep protrusions. • Axis align, datum plane offset, and mate. • Intricate angles were measured to fully constrain the landing gear and support beams
Main Rotor • Contains complex series of constraints including pin, bearing and ball joint. • Simple methods of modeling such extrude, cut and mirror were implemented.
Helicopter Body • Outlined digital pictures of body with Style Tool, Mirror, Shell, and Extrudes to model the main body. • Cut out of windshield, color, and reassemble.
Problems Encountered • Constraining servo motors • Replicating swash plate movement • Parts needing to be re-measured • Unit corrections
Thank you Ray for all your help & motivation this semester. Thank You