UKHAS Wiki

Hehe well its not top secret as you can see it in recent changes - oh well…

I'm just going to dump everything i can think of/remember:

Things that need to be done/overcome/worked out:

• 2 way comms
• kite dynamics, e.g. winds, angle of attach
• deployment at altitude e.g. cutdown, drogue? predeployment? parachute for most of descent and then use parawing later?
• pathfinding - ability to calculate best angle of attack into the wind, not risk parawing by going directly into the wind, find alternative landing sites?
• kite shape - enchanced or not? - MC I've got a simple lidl kite
• control, method of turning, servos + bar, motor + drive shaft + t bar, winch + bridle
• flight computer - gumstix for gps, digital compass, complex pathfinding, comms + PIC for controlling motors/servos + sensors?
• landing - autopilot? r/c guided?
• future plans/roadmap

Specs:

• 750g payload
• therefore 1m2 parachute would be required
• equivalent parawing?

Ideas:

• Parawing Steering 1

Links:

• Slope Soaring Sim (Free flight sim for mac and windows) Link

- MC If you want to split up tasks, I could work on 2 way comms - MC - Parawing won't mind going into wind, IMHO - MC - I think the Mk1 version could be steered from the ground, then Mk2 could be steered by software - MC - It should be possible to have a much smaller payload, perhaps around the mass of a servo+batt+electronics