The Mini-Rocket Coaxial Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (MRC UAV) is a coaxial tail-sitter helicopter based in one Contra Rotating Brushless Outrunner Motor whose weight is about 500 gr (of all the vehicle), manipulated with two ailerons, which control the pitch and roll motions, while the difference of the velocities of the two motors allow to control the yaw motion.
The main goal of this mini-
rocket is that it is capable of being launched through an external dispositive, and transforming itself into a coaxial helicopter. Once the vehicle reaches the objective (a place, a building, etc.), it performs hover flight, and can inspect the environment acquiring and transmitting information through a RF camera to a ground station.
This project is based on the original idea of the “Gun Launch Micro Air Vehicle” (GLMAV), which is being developed by the French-German Research Institute of Saint Louis (ISL) in collaboration with the “Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy” (CRAN – Nancy-Universities), the CNRS joint unit of research “HEUristique et DIAgnostic des Systèmes Complexes” (HEUDIASYC - University of Technology of Compiègne) and the company SBG Systems SAS.
Aerospace vehicles