Coanda effect UAV

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Coanda effect UAV

• Ionut Verzea
• Universitatea Transilvania
• România

Photo from Aesir-UAV.com
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Coanda effect UAV (unmaned aerial vehicle)

• Goals
• develop an energy efficient UAV, easy to control
  and deploy in the field
• try to make the UAV operate in an autonomous mode
• research the swarm behavior and try to implement
  it over a small to medium sized network made from
  this type of devices
• research about energy efficiency for sensor grids
  used in this kind of mobile devices
• bring a new point of view over the way sensors
  array might be deployed/picked up in remote areas

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Coanda effect UAV

• What have I done so far
• study different sensor in order to chose the most
  energy efficient/weightless one for the system
• check to see if a Real Time Operating System
  might be implemented on such a device or try to
  use embedded software
• study network protocols used in small to medium
  sized wireless array sensor

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Coanda effect UAV

• Future usage of device
• Search and rescue operations
• Deploy sensors array in remote or hard accessible
  areas
• Transport small cargo (up to 5-10 kg) without the
  need of a human operator
• Research, test and development of communication
  protocols and energy management system for
  different network configuration.

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Coanda effect UAV

• Who have done research so far?
• Henri Coanda Romanian aeronautical engineer
  born in 1886. Patent No.2,108,652 dated February
  15, 1938 concerned airflow acceleration over the
  periphery of a concave disc
• Geoff Hatton British inventor, built a small
  UAV based on the Coanda effect
• Aesir-UAS in the GFS Project, have done projects
  that were later overtaken by US Army for future
  development and utilization.