New conceptual UAV by Paul Summerson is suitable for backpack

In recent times, gathering intelligence information has become very important for the security of a country. So, countries like US are using more and more advanced technology for surveillance and intelligence work. The US army is employing fresh and young minds from the field of technology and industrial design to design such gadgets which can be more advanced, useful as well as lightweight to do such work. Very recently, Paul Summerson, a BS degree holding industrial designer has designed a conceptual Unmanned Aerial Vehicle or UAV for US army in 3D. He has completed it in just four days.The purpose of this remote controlled vehicle is to land in a place, gather intelligence information and return to the point of origin with safety and ease.

US soldiers using concept UAV by Paul Summerson

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The main challenge for the designer Paul Summerson, is to produce a design which will be as lightweight as possible. The army has told the designer that the vehicle shall be designed in such a way that it can fit easily in the backpack of a soldier. The US military and Department of Defense already use a large amount of Unmanned Aerial vehicles which are big in size. Information and designs of these vehicles and aircrafts are available in the form of PDF files on the net. Mr. Summerson begins his work by collecting them. He starts downloading these from the net. Thus, a huge library or collection of such designs is formed.

The next step for MR. Summerson is to study those designs very minutely. As he is already advised by military to build this as light weight as possible, Mr. Summerson starts doing his design on this aspect. He chooses the design of Quadrocopter or Quadrotor which is a state of the art light weight aircraft that is lifted and propelled by four rotors. Besides, he gives emphasis to make the design of the craft modular. This modular design enables the craft easily repairable if somehow some part of it is damaged. Therefore, the soldiers can easily take out the damaged part and replace it with a new one. Apart from these, MR.Summerson designs it to carry multiple payloads whenever possible. Other components include DC Brushless motors, Li-ion battery for power source, Accelerometers and GPS facility.

Once the design is finalised, MR.Summerson then takes only three days to complete the design by simply sketching it. Then the final 3D output is done via combination of softwares like Hypershot and Photoshop.

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