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Table of Contents 1 Administrative Information 1.1 Project Overview 1.2 Staffing Requirements 1.3 Team 1.4 Other Links

Administrative Information

Project Name

METEOR Autonomous Instrumentation Recovery Platform

Project Number

P07108

Project Family

METEOR Family of Projects

Track

P07100 Aerospace Systems and Technology track

Start Term

2006-2

Team

End Term

2006-3

Faculty Guide

Dr. Melton (CE)

Faculty Consultant

Dr. Dorin Patru (EE), Dr. Lam (ME), and Dr. Jeffery Kozak (ME)

Primary Customer

Dr. Dorin Patru (EE) Head of METEOR Project

Customer contact information

Dr. Dorin Patru dxpeee@rit.edu 585-475-2388

Project Overview

This project will build a lightweight autonomous recovery system for the the instrumentation Platform payload to a desired location, which will be designated a safe area. This flight system will provide for a structure that can contain a payload weight between 6 and 10 pounds. The flight system does have a limiting weight, which is 8 pounds, however a long term goal is to place the overall system weight at 12 pounds. The team must provide complete documentation of the analysis, design, manufacturing, fabrication, test, and evaluation of this system to a level of detail that a subsequent team can build upon their work if needed, with little background research.

Staffing Requirements

Staffing

Team Member	Discipline	Role / Skills	email address
Dr. Melton	ME	Faculty Guide, Will work closely with the team on an on-going basis to facilitate success.	mjleme@rit.edu
Dr. Patru	EE	Faculty Consultant, Will provide EE discipline technical support on an intermittent basis.	dxpeee@rit.edu
Dr. Kozak	ME	Faculty Consultant, Will provide ME discipline technical support on an intermittent basis.	jdkeme@rit.edu
Dr. Lam	ME	Faculty Consultant, Will provide ME discipline technical support on an intermittent basis.
Bashitha Nanayakkara	ISE	Project Manager	bxn2292@rit.edu
Ryan Weisman	ME	Flight Dynamics, Propulsion, Aerodynamics	rmw6317@rit.edu
Scott DeFisher	ME	Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Aerodynamics	Scotty519@gmail.com
Derrick Miller	ME	Modeling, FEA knowledge, GDT	dvm7461@rit.edu
Phil Gurbacki	ME	Modeling, FEA knowledge, GDT	Pjillip.m.gurbacki@gmail.com
Paul Matejcik	EE	Instrumentation Platform Interface, Power Systems, RF Communication	pmatejcikee@hotmail.com
Mike Kochanski	CE	Object Oriented Programming (Open Source)	mck4102@rit.edu

Team

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