Hello Everyone!

I am in my final year of Highschool, and am currently undertaking a Design & Manufacture project that is worth 50% of my final grade. This project involves finding a problem that doesn't have a product that solves it currently on the market.
So, as part of the research phase I must ask users in certain contexts, e.g. multirotors, what problems they encounter.

So here are the questions:
I would be very grateful that you took the time to give some quick answers, if not then no worries, there are more important questions on the forum I'm sure, but thanks anyway!

1. What problems do you experience when building/flying UAVs for which a solution/product does not currently exist?
2. What kind of product could solve this issue?
3. Where would it be used?
4. What would the expected price-point be for such a solution/product?

EDIT: I should clarify that the project cannot be to do with software: it has to be physical, and must keep electronics to a minimum for health and safety reasons, unfortunately.

1. Frsky
2. ELRS
3. Everywhere
4. Tens of dollars

there is tuning difficulty

auto tune feature could solve time to improve the tuning

it schould autotune inflight

the value of a working feature wouldnt be displayed by a price, it should be opensource - the honer for a developer will be high, it would change a future salary and open many possibilities ;-)

fpv doesnt exist cause of money, fpv lives by passion :-)
sevros example of the still existing elrs might show that well

I second an autotune solution, but one that can be done in a box.

1. Ability to automatically tune a drone's flight performance as well as test a new setup in a controlled environment
2. An auto-tune box, similar to the size of a desktop 3D printer. You would fix your drone with props attached inside this enclosure, to a chassis that limits the drone movement but has the necessary sensors to detect the drones response and find the ideal tune after iterative trials and cloud based AI learning based on all user data.
3. Indoors in the garage/basement/workbench
4. $500+

sadly the aerodynamics doesnt match a fixed drone, its the same on motors in benchtest: the results cant be adapted to the realflight situation one by one

i would like that box xD but i beleieve its not the way for a good tune or should that work?

It seems the modelling/simulation of drone flight has become very advanced and with some amazing results (like the ability for an AI drone to solely map its path for a race course in simulation and then actually successfully execute that flight in real life at speeds faster than the top human race pilots.

The box would have to allow for some movement in order to measure the drone response, I guess the key would be to design a chassis/measuring system that allows enough movement to get enough data to accurately model the full free flight characteristics with the drone only moving inches inside the box. It might allow movement in only one axis at a time, but then combine all the separate data into a correct model. AI would help to formulate/refine such a model, who knows...

It’s a nice idea, but I don’t think a sterile environment in a box would work. It wouldn’t factor in real world things like air resistance and wind, and the disturbed air would muck up any results. It certainly wouldn’t be able to account for prop wash, and if it did, it would be tuning it as if it was constantly in prop wash due to the disturbed air. I think it’d have to be some sort of separate on board module with its own processor, maybe a raspberry pi or something that can analyze and adjust real world flight in real time.

As far problems that don’t have a solution- but the solution needs to be physical, not software, and minimal electronics? I can’t think of anything off the top of my head. These things are primarily electronic, and any type of mounts or whatnot that we need we 3d print or have 3d printed.

But, to answer your questions:

1. When flying I often feel bugs crawling or landing on me.
It’s distracting, and it’s not safe for me to take my hands off of the sticks to brush them off.
2. Some sort of air curtain hat. Or maybe a mosquito net hat.
3. It would be used when flying outdoors.
4. I might pay $5 just for the novelty. If it is a fan/air curtain solution, I might be willing to pay closer to $25 if it kept me cool at the same time (cool as far as temperature goes. )

(16-Sep-2023, 09:48 PM)Lemonyleprosy Wrote: Best reply/problem yet! Thanks! XD

Thanks for all the great replies, now how bout some problems with frames and motors?
Like for example: is there a market for geometry-shifting frames for larger quads (7"+), or a market for lighter cinewhoop frames, or motors with more toque for industrial drones?