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Master thesis proposal (Examensarbete) SAR Drone Airframe Design Background The Swedish Sea Rescue Society is exploring how a fleet of small, remotely launched drones could help us make our sea rescue work safer and more efficient. With this call we hope to get better insights into what kind of airframe might be best suited for our use case. Problem description • Our voluntary rescue boat crews have to be en route within 15 minutes of a call. We would like for our crews to have live video from the scene before they depart in as many cases as possible. We need sufficient speed and enough drones to be able to reach a majority of rescue cases within 10 minutes or less. • We believe that one important key to being able to fly safely beyond line of sight (BVLOS) is to minimise consequences in case of collision by being very light an soft. 1, 1.5 and 2 kg would be good weight limits to explore. • The majority of our missions occur during the summer in benign weather. Still we would like to push the weather performance as far as possible within the very low weight limits to be able to fly in as many cases as possible. • Once on the scene, the drone is expected to loiter for the duration of the rescue. • After the rescue the drone will be landed on the water and retrieved by the rescue boat crew. Objective This call could be successfully answered at several levels: Operational profile; Aerodynamic configuration; Off-the-shelf solutions suitability An Aerodynamic design and Prototyping would be optimum Links: surtsey.org/projects/providence-airframe-design Contacts: Fredrik Falkman, [email protected] 2018-10-22
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Master thesis proposal (Examensarbete)
SAR Drone Airframe Design
Background
The Swedish Sea Rescue Society is exploring how a fleet of small, remotely launched drones could help us make our sea rescue work safer and more efficient.
With this call we hope to get better insights into what kind of airframe might be best suited for our use case.
Problem description
• Our voluntary rescue boat crews have to be en route within 15 minutes of a call. We would like for our crews to have
live video from the scene before they depart in as many cases as possible. We need sufficient speed and enough
drones to be able to reach a majority of rescue cases within 10 minutes or less.
• We believe that one important key to being able to fly safely beyond line of sight (BVLOS) is to minimise
consequences in case of collision by being very light an soft. 1, 1.5 and 2 kg would be good weight limits to explore.
• The majority of our missions occur during the summer in benign weather. Still we would like to push the weather
performance as far as possible within the very low weight limits to be able to fly in as many cases as possible.
• Once on the scene, the drone is expected to loiter for the duration of the rescue.
• After the rescue the drone will be landed on the water and retrieved by the rescue boat crew.
Objective
This call could be successfully answered at several levels:
Operational profile; Aerodynamic configuration; Off-the-shelf solutions suitability
An Aerodynamic design and Prototyping would be optimum
Links: surtsey.org/projects/providence-airframe-designContacts: Fredrik Falkman, [email protected]
2018-10-22
