A Tensegrity Drone

Based on analyses of the physical laws which govern collisions and research into animals that can survive massive falls (ie. cats), my team proposed a future concept for an indestructible quadcopter drone.

My contribution to this project included:

• Implementing an algorithm to find the lowest energy configuration of an arbitrary tensegrity structure
• Testing/validation the benefit of using tensegrity vs rigid drone
• Engineering design/development of tensegrity drone structure

Skills:

Optimization algorithms

Rapid prototyping

Tensegrity structure design