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Mechanics: horizontal stabilizer for fiber composite fuselage
- design in OnShape
- connection to the fuselage
- control as watertight as possible
- manufactured with CFRP / GFRP
- positive construction with XPS core
- negative design with negative form
Mechanics: detachable nose
- design of a detachable nose
- suitable, reversible seal
- change of the battery
Mechanics: wings in fiber composite technology
- design of the wings in OnShape
- servo control of the ailerons
- manufactured using fiber composite technology (positive construction with XPS core)
Mechanics: camera module for fiber fuselage
- design of the camera window in the fuselage with OnShape
- holder for Rasperry Pi camera v2
- holder for Rasperry Pi Zero W
- gluing acrylic glass / GFRP
- double camera system
Electrics: replacement of LiPo by LiIon
- construction of a battery from LiIons for the drive
- appropriate connection technology and integration into the fuselage
Electrics: construction of the ground transmitter
- contains: a telemetry transmitter, an UART-ethernet converter and a WiFi access point
- design of a circuit board to connect all components
- conception of a box for installation on the ship
Electrics: board computer circuit board
- replacement of the Raspberry Pi Zero with a Rasperry Compute Module
- connection for two cameras
- alternatively: NVidia Jetson Compute Module
Software: QGroundControl “Return to Ship”
- set up build environment for QGC
- integration of return to ship function
- plan and document releases for QGC
- build QGC for MacOs, Linux and Android
- installation on laptop and tablet
Software: Diverse projects
- Live automated mission replaning / circle above boat
- Speedup wireless log download from flight computer
- Automated optimization of mission planing based on known winddirection
- Database to log and visualize flightlogs
- Improvements on the SearchWing Pi/Drone Manager
Software: Imagerecognition (Berlin)
- Thermal camera processing (De-Vignetting, detection, …)
- Training of machinelearning based objekt detection algorithms
- Optimized deployment of machinelearning algorithms to flight/companion computer
- Tracking of detections