My Bachelors project was within the domain of Aerospace and titled: Design, Build and Implementation of a VTOL (Vertical Take-off and Landing) Maritime UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) . This project was sponsored by the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO).



There were five people involved with this project and I was both the team leader and safety officer. I designed the frame and landing gear using PRO Engineer and ANSYS Workbench and built the frame out of aluminium. The Pro engineer model is as follows:



The Ansys static analysis of the frame is as followed.




The Ansys dynamic model of the landing gear is as follows:


The project resulted in a successful test flight of a variable pitch quad-copter and a video can be seen on the following page: