A tenth-grade student at School No. 1238 in Moscow, Dmitry R., developed and assembled an unmanned aircraft with a stabilization system at the Altair children's technopark at RTU MIREA. The project became a prize winner at the "Engineers of the Future" conference and the winner of the "Golden Dozen" competition.
Dmitry began the work by studying the history of unmanned aviation to understand how the technologies evolved and which problems remain relevant. The main challenge is stability in windy weather and when the payload changes. Under the guidance of instructor Aleksandr Pavlichenko, the school student mastered circuit design, programming, and the basics of aerodynamics.
He designed the onboard electronics, the airframe, and the navigation algorithms. An unusual solution was the refinement of the wing material: he rolled out lightweight ceiling tile and made cuts in it, achieving the required flexibility without losing strength.
The aircraft passed bench tests: it operates stably at –10…+19 °C, lifts up to 430 g, and demonstrates control accuracy with minimal servo deviations.
Now the young developer is upgrading the stabilization system and plans to install an FPV camera and a thermal imager to expand its range of tasks — from monitoring to search operations.
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