Mini-drones: application issues and technological innovations
To provide the drone user or client with a good knowledge of the deployment context, tasks and technical issues of civil drone systems. Through numerous practical sessions, including a day of operational application, the learner will discover the conceptual building blocks of a civil drone system (aerial vector and embedded systems), the technical locks and an overview of future drone systems being studied in research laboratories.
The course lasts 3 days (18 hours) and includes:
- Lectures and visits to experimental installations
- Practical applications of mini-drone design
- The practical implementation of micro-drone flight tests
The course aims to offer broad technical knowledge of the different types of micro-drones (planes, multirotors, convertibles, hybrid micro-drones) and to provide an appreciation of their specific advantages and disadvantages. This course provides a balanced combination of a technical/prospective approach and practical teaching via the use of drone systems in the field.
Course level: Basic
Knowledge of aeronautical systems and engineering sciences is required.
Jean-Marc MOSCHETTA:
Professor at the Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO or the National Higher French Institute of Aeronautics and Space) and Consultant at ONERA. Founder and Director of the Groupement d'intérêt Scientifique (GIS) "Micro-Drones" (Micro-Drone Scientific Interest Group). In collaboration with a team of lecturer-researchers at ISAE-SUPAERO and the training school for drone operators at company Flying Manta.
- Introduction to mini-, micro- and nano-drones (half day)
- Definitions and concepts, miniature drone markets, the importance of miniaturization, uses
- Technical difficulties related to miniaturization, specificity of air vectors, scale effects
- Advantages and disadvantages of different configurations: swing-wing, rotary wing, fixed wing and hybrid designs
- Demand, use, market and performance review
- Advantages and disadvantages of different configurations: swing-wing, rotary wing, fixed wing and hybrid designs
- Regulation, certification, airworthiness of civil drone systems (half day)
- Summary of current regulations
- Certification and airworthiness requirements for civil drones
- Foreseeable evolution of regulations in France and internationally
- Completing a reconnaissance mission (1 day)
- Technical briefing and analysis of the drone system
- Flight in the flight simulator, debriefing
- Preparing a reconnaissance mission
- Completing a reconnaissance mission in the field
- Debriefing and panel discussion
- Aerial vector design (half day)
- Design constraints and the operational compromise
- Notions of optimization of the propulsion chain
- Visit to test benches and the ISAE-SUPAERO micro-drone wind tunnel
- Future air systems
- On-board architecture of civil drones (half day)
- Current developments of on-board mini-drone systems
- Hardware and software architecture
- Overview of different actuators and sensors
- Mission suitability of on-board architecture
- Overview of operational architecture
- Visit to the ISAE-SUPAERO Autonomous Systems Room
- In-flight demonstration and working with development tools
- Discussion panel: future perspectives and innovation
Schedulded in French:
TOULOUSE: 1st to 3 July 2019
For the English realization, please, consult us.
