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Date of Submission
Spring 4-22-2020
Project Type
Senior Design
Minor
Aerospace Engineering
Major
Mechanical Engineering
Department
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Committee Chair/First Advisor
Adeel Khalid
Abstract
The purpose of this report was to provide a thorough description of the design process with the goal of converging on a design solution for an aircraft that can perform multiple data acquisition routines on Saturn’s Titan. This aircraft serves as an improved alternative to current aircraft designed for Saturn’s moon Titan; namely, the Dragonfly that requires an onboard multi-mission thermoelectric generator for power and eight rotors. The proposed design utilizes a wireless recharging method to allow for the MMRTG to be offboarded to save on weight and a fixed wing is included to improve the efficiency and redundancy over helicopter forward flight. Humanity has continued to explore the solar system and from that new unique vehicles will be needed to allow for research operations to be carried out in environments that are hostile to humans – where autonomous and/or semiautonomous systems would be useful.
Final Design Report
FDR (Final Design Review) - Team Titan.pdf (2570 kB)
Presentation
Team Titan - Poster.pdf (515 kB)
Poster