The Skyeye Team has joined UAVForge.net : A DARPA challenge on collaboration to design, build and manufacture advanced small unmanned air vehicle (UAV) Systems.
The grand prize $100,000 which is a lot of money that we can use to further develop our UAV Solutions for a lot of applications. So we are very serious on this project and we are putting a lot of effort in developing our concept and of course proving it. We are out to win this even though we are underfunded and to quite honest outgunned in this competition.
here is our concept :
A VTOL-FIXED WING UAS Hybrid that will complete the course.
One of the biggest problems we encountered is oddly power management, there is simply not enough battery power to fly 2 miles into the site, transmit video for 3 hours while perching and fly back 2 miles to the take-off point and do a follow me for maybe another mile.
We decided that a cool way to do this is to “poop” batteries. Batteries are heavy and for them to recharged you have to make sure they don’t go below a certain limit (especially for Li-Poly) or they might get destroyed or much worse blow up destroying you.
Those two things are the make-up of the solution we are proposing on this DARPA Challenge.
If you like what we have done, and found our music very very trippy then vote for us. Go to UAVForge.net, sign up and look for our entry in the “Solutions” and then like it 