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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
- 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
Team Member | Discipline | Role / Skills | email address |
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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
Team(L to R) Dr.Roy Melton, Derrick Miller, Ryan Weisman, Paul Matejcik, Phil Gurbacki, Bashitha Nanayakkara, Scott DeFisher, Mike Kochanski