The issues with current multirotors and how we want to fix them

• Posted by UASys on July 22, 2014 at 7:30pm
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Hi everyone! My name is Jonathan Parrott, and I’m with Stephen Dade and James Pattison. We are all members of the CanberraUAV non for profit organisation from Australia and between us have been involved with “drones” for over 13 years between us.

We love multirotors, and have bought and/or built A LOT of them between us, only to be let down by one thing or another. Lazy and unsafe design compromises, poor build quality, substandard gimbals, and poor/illegal video transmitters are just the start of the issues we keep coming across.  We saw a need to fix these problems, so we created the UASys (Uninhabited Aircraft Systems) team. We are focused on designing and creating safe and innovative multirotors with particular emphasis on safety, practicality, aesthetics, and high quality video feeds.

It helps that James is an aerospace engineer (and a bit crazy). Stephen is a communications engineer (and assists with the APM:Planner 2 Linux port, MAVProxy development AND runs the occasional quadcopter workshop). Lastly I (just call me Jono) work as an aviation traffic management officer (yeah it’s kinda complicated to explain).  So all in all a pretty good set of skills to attack this kind of project with.

We are all massive fans of open source software, and think that not only the final product, but the journey, should be open to all. We're really excited to get started on some concepts and an initial prototype and will keep everyone updated with how we are going!



We've got a few more concept pictures on our Flickr page so check it out :)

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