Description: This AEV had a singular motor and propeller on a T-frame the AEV on top with the battery hanging from below the frame.
Notes; This design was abandoned due to findings in aR&D 1&2 which proved that while one motor consumed less energy two motors produced more energy which the AEV requires to complete its task.
Description: This design is similar to the reference design with it comprising of two motors and propellers on a T-frame with the battery hanging from below the frame.
Note; This design was abandoned since it was incapable of completing the tasks set in Performance 2 , particularly the part where it was required to latch on to the caboose. This issue was caused by the fact that there was no space to put the metallic bracket without it deleting the data on the arduino.
Final Design
Description: This design consisted of extended wings using trapezoid frames and a rectangular frame extending from the bottom of the AEV where the metallic bracket that’s to be used to latch onto the caboose was placed.
Note; the wings were extended since in aR&D 1&2 the results pointed to the fact that propellers that were closely placed interfered with each other resulting in higher energy consumption.