Structure and Design vertical focuses on creating robust, lightweight, and aerodynamically efficient structures for an autonomous UAV. We are responsible for designing the physical framework of the UAV, ensuring it can withstand various flight conditions and payload requirements. This includes selecting materials that provide optimal strength-to-weight ratios and developing a modular design that allows for easy maintenance and upgrades.

Sub Part of SND: Payload Delivery System aims to develop a multi-phased aerial deployment mechanism that can land/airdrop payloads during in-flight or standby hover modes. It deals with aerial dynamics and trajectory modeling for different phases of airdrop and thus optimization to ensure higher accuracy of the delivery. It incorporates both passive and active guidance mechanisms for optimal trajectory control and pinpoint landing. It deals with analyzing factors like wind speed, altitude, target coordinates, payload weight, induced drag etc. which as a whole accounts for airdrop and trajectory simulations. As an end goal it aims to fabricate a mechanism accounting all the parameters and capable of communicating with other subsystems on-board the UAV such that the PDS can be operated either remotely or autonomously.