"Easing Earth's energy sources without compromising the technology for a safer world." The technology behind the UAV 'quadcopter' brought whole new methods of risk assessment, media applications, law enforcement and many more. It is considered as the most versatile multi-purpose UAV in the field. Every year operational inefficiencies and mistakes happen in many industries due to the lack of real-t
ime information, which is why the quadcopter was introduced. Being an agile UAV it is able to swiftly fly to and help assess an area affected by war or crime for example, or help collect as much data of a region as possible to assist in the event of imminent natural disasters. There are many more applications to mention but that can wait for another day. What we in Light Flight hope to achieve is to up the ante of current quadcopters in terms of power sources, therefore rather using batteries we are looking for a natural energy source instead, the Sun. As you may know, the Earth's limited energy sources will run out sooner or later and every bit we save will allow those sources to last longer. This is why solar powered copters are being developed. The current progress in the field has proven feasible and we are aiming to achieve responsive, stable and manoeuvrable copters driven by sunlight alone.
--Light Flight Team
Abbasi, Haris
Aye, Min
Fan, Takyi
Le, Jean
Lok, Chunkit
Project supervised by:
Dr M. Shaheed [BSc, MSc (Dhaka), PhD (Sheffield), PGCAP (London), MIEEE, MIET]
Prof A. Munjiza [DipIng(Split), MSc(Zagreb) PhD(Swansea)]
