23 Sep

Experimenting with various balloon facing mechanisms to improve control

Pranav Sankar Srinivasan

The past two weeks, I have been developing different balloon facing mechanisms with the goal of creating one that improves the blimp's capability to control the balloon. My first idea was to build a "fence" made out of barbecue skewers and mount it onto the top of the blimp. The idea was that th...

11 Sep

Prototyping a balloon interfacing mechanism for aerial soccer competition

Pranav Sankar Srinivasan

I have been working on brainstorming and prototyping different methods that enable the fleet of blimps the FORAY team is developing to corral a balloon and score it in the appropriate goal. Some factors I need to take into consideration includes the weight of the mechanism, whether we want a passive...

26 Aug

Testing of Different Envelope Shapes Using Flapping Technology: Test 2

Pranav Sankar Srinivasan

My initial test of the different blimp envelope shapes resulted in the other balloons that I had bought not having a large enough volume of helium to support the weight of the flapping technology that is needed to enable them to traverse space. This was also true in the case that all 3 small balloon...

17 Aug

Initial Testing of Different Envelope Shapes Using Flapping Technology

Pranav Sankar Srinivasan

The past few days, I have worked on implementing a pre-built flapping technology on helium balloons of different shapes and sizes running tests with them. Although the experiment did not go as planned (for reasons I will discuss later), I will discuss what did occur as I ran my first iteration of th...

02 Aug

Balancing cost and performance of camera modules for computer vision

Pranav Sankar Srinivasan

This past week, I have been researching different camera modules that can be used on the blimps in the FORAY project. The main challenge when it comes to determining the best camera module for our use case is choosing one that is a light as possible without sacrificing performance capability in term...

21 Jul

Network Communication Between Numerous Blimps

Pranav Sankar Srinivasan

This summer I am working with other members of LEMUR on the FORAY project where we are developing a fleet of LTAVs (lighter-than-air vehicles) with a design emphasis on speed and agility that can compete in a game of aerial soccer or Quidditch. Below is the overal structure of the different aspect...

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