DRONE 2.0: UAV Cloud Distributed 3D Printing (CD/3D) Process
(Room Innovation Hub-- Booth 2717)
03 May 16
1:30 PM
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2:00 PM
Tracks:
Academic, Air, Research and Development
DRONE 2.0 – UAV/UUV Cloud Distributed 3D Printing (CD/3D) Process. AirShip Technologies Group’s turn-key process for 3D printing carbon fiber-based long-flight endurance vertical takeoff and landing UAV’s is deployable from powder to production within 24 hours. CD/3D allows for rapid, low-skill field manufacturing with embedded electrical conductive ink printed circuits, while enabling 3D printed materials over the Cloud, remote location manufacturing, and dramatically reduced lead times. We create a carbon fiber airframe and seamless connection via embedded conductive ink electrical circuits through selective laser sintering (SLS) which enables customizable snap-in components for UAV communications, navigation, and "molded interconnect device" (MID) sensors for data collection. By using conductive ink in the 3D Print process, it enables airframe printed circuitry, reduced aircraft weight, less complex systems for maintenance and systems integrity checks, while allowing for new or precision replacement of damaged airframes. Maintenance time is dramatically reduced as only the damaged aircraft part is re-printed enabling accurate repairs and quickly restoring aircraft to service. By printing and launching small UAVs from customizable computer aided designs via 3D printed carbon fiber filament or powder, the customer controls just-in-time production and when to print. This provides a cost-effective capability enabling an entirely new operational process for mission assets that benefit from DRONE 2.0 Cloud distributed 3D printing. AirShip’s DRONE 2.0 Value Proposition consists of the following • Additive Manufacturing-Cloud Distributed 3D Printing • Clean Tech Propulsion – Solar Film & Hydrogen Fuel Cell • Long Flight Endurance – 12 hours to 5-Days • UAV to UUV – Aerial to Submersible Operations • Scalable Payload Architecture in UAV models - V1, V2, V5, & V7