Engineers Ireland - Flying Robots Over Your House: The Electronics Behind Drone Delivery

Description

Topics will include:

• A look at the physics behind maximum aircraft power consumption, and how that analysis feeds into cable and connector sizing.
• Designing an auxiliary power system to deploy the parachute after main power loss and keep critical systems alive during main battery changes.
• Building test rigs to reproduce rare intermittent faults that only appeared once every few thousand operations.
• Electrical wiring interconnection system design.
• Cable sizing trade-offs.
• Connector fretting.
• The practical realities of designing electronics for aircraft that must operate reliably outdoors, repeatedly, and close to people and property.

About the presenter

Shane Ormonde is a Lead Electronics Engineer at Manna Drone Delivery, where he designs electronic systems for autonomous delivery drones. His work spans power systems, PCB design, harness design, testing, reliability, and field/production investigations.