The first trend found from the advanced research and development 1 was that increasing the accuracy of the reflectance sensors was a moot point. There did not seem to be any reasonable need for increasing the accuracy of these sensors. The data shows that the reflectance sensors were off by at most 1.230%, which is well within margin for almost any AEV design we could create. From this, the group decided to move on without changing the reflectance sensors. The second trend found was from advanced research and development 2 and involved the design of the AEV. From our findings, the group determined that lower profile shapes create more aerodynamic structures for the AEV, and thus, the main canopy for our design should be shorter. The testing involved wings, but both these and the main canopy will not be carried forward into the final design, and instead the data collected will be used to analyze the aerodynamics of the curvature on the battery holder of our current prototype AEV design. The data highlighted that for our final AEV design, the battery holder should be a round surface that allowed the wind to brush around it and not directly buffet the vehicle. The final trend found came from fluid flow analysis on the propeller alignment for prototype 3. This trend found that for the design, the bottom propeller was significantly less effective than the top propeller. To supplement this, the team decided to maximize the top propeller and salvage as much of the bottom propeller’s speed as possible.
aR&D 2 Picture
Extra R&D Picture (Propeller Orientation Simulation)
aR&D3 Break Speed Testing Data
