The quadrotor is named 'Chaturpaksha' which means four winged in Hindi. To know more about the timeline and budget of this project, click here.
Chaturpaksha features -
- Size less than 300 mm
- Total weight of ~ 600 gms
- Payload capacity ~500 gms
- Endurance (without payload) of 22 minutes
- Full Carbon fiber 3 piece structure precisely cut using CNC machine
- High quality carbon fiber plates manufactured inhouse
- 5030 slow fly propellers
- AXI 2203-52 race motors
- Zippy compact 4000 mAh battery
- 4 medium range IR sensors for collision avoidance
- 1 long range IR sensor for altitude hold
- 500mW 5.8 GHz video transmitter with line of sight transmission range of ~ 1 km
- 72 MHz RC
- 2.4 GHz Xbee for telemetry
- ublox GPS
- APM 2.5
- Fat Shark FPV system
This video shows the collision avoidance capabilities for indoor navigation. This video shows some footage of the earliest model. The net was held underneath so that the battery could be fully discharged to calculate the maximum endurance
