McGill Aerial Design Uses Flight Stand for UAS Build

McGill Aerial Design is a student UAS competition team who most recently used the Flight Stand 15 during the development of their competition drone. Here's what they had to say about the role of Tyto Robotics' tools.

Figure 1: Pictures of the Flight Stand 15 in use

“The Tyto Robotics Flight Stand 15 has allowed McGill Aerial Design to massively improve our ability to test our drones’ propulsion systems. In prior years, we have not had a simple method to test motors, batteries, or propellers, and would have to drive an hour to a test site, taking up an entire day’s worth of time. The flight stand has allowed us to eliminate many of these trips, saving us time, and allowing us to perform significantly more motor tests than we were previously capable of. 

Now that we have a comprehensive curve of power vs thrust, we are able to better plan out our missions for the competition. We can use this info about needed power, compare it to the capacity of our battery, and determine how aggressively or conservatively we are able to fly our drone.  

The flight stand allowed us to test out our use of DroneCAN for the first time, rather than PWM, which we have used in prior years. We were also able to test out our new electronically locking motors by spinning them on the flight stand.”