Structronics

Autonomy and Advanced SystemsShowcase: Structronics

Prof Jim Scanlan

History of developing range of Platforms

Strong track record in this area(Now <£16M)

Funder Research Title Value PIEPSRC Next Generation Energy Harvesting Electronics-holistic £722,135.80 Bashir Al-HashimiEPSRC Digital Agent Networking for Customer Energy Reduction £43,487.00 Ben AndersonEPSRC Energy Harvesting Materials for Smart Fabrics and Interactive £1,160,556.00 Steve BeebyFP7 Advance £508,498.39 Michael ButlerNERC Support for the Ocean Bottom Instrument Facility £316,799.00 Tim HenstockTSB/Rolls SILOET 2; autonmated design processes for aerosapce £767,304.00 Andy KeaneNERC Miniaturised low-cost high precision mass market conductivity

and temperature sensor technology£8,000.00 Hywel Morgan

NERC Ultra miniaturised, low power, high precision, robust CT-DO sensor system exploitation

£6,946.00 Hywel Morgan

EPSRC Human-Agent Collectives [ORCHID] £2,944,129.49 Nick JenningsSecure Meters UK

Optimisation of Electricity Distribution Networks-Secure Meters UK-Jennings

£1,587,383.00 Nick Jennings

EPSRC Distributed Sensing £408,912.00 Nick JenningsTSB Smart Laser Manufacturing £319,662.00 David RichardsonEPSRC Intelligent Agents for Home Energy Management £813,141.00 Alex RogersSEAS DTC Control of Autonomous Mobile Sensors £287,917.00 Alex RogersDSTL Unmanned Air System Studentship £94,419.00 Jim ScanlanEPSRC DECODE (Decision Environment for COmplex DEsigns) £768,872.00 Jim ScanlanEuropean Regional Dev

2Seas; development of maritime autonomous systems £314,686.00 Jim Scanlan

EPSRC/TSB SAMULET Project 5: Processing Advanced Aerospace Materials £260,331.00 Jim ScanlanEU CRESCENDO multidicisplinary design of aerospace systems £302,468.00 Jim ScanlanRolls Royce Plc Whole Engine Intelligent Costing Modelling £66,000.00 Jim ScanlanRolls Royce Plc Value Driven Design of aerospace systems £120,000.00 Jim ScanlanTSB/Rolls SILOET 3 novel design methods for additive manufacturing £453,009.00 Jim ScanlanNERC Geothermal systems related to rapid uplift on the Alpine Fault,

New Zealand£53,944.88 Damon Teagle

NERC IODP2: Ocean crust carbonate veins £276,802.19 Damon TeagleNERC IODP Expedition 335 Superfast 4 £75,708.00 Damon TeagleNERC Alpine Fault Zone £357,725.00 Damon TeagleFP7 ROV-E autonomous rover £184,344.00 Scott WalkerEPSRC NEWCAT - Configurable Ananlogue Transistors: Conquering

Unreliablility in a Shrinking World£442,062.18 Peter Wilson

EPSRC Reliable Power Systems and Integrated Circuits £6,040.00 Peter WilsonDSTL Research and Development into Advanced Design £49,972.50 Shoufeng YangEPSRC Dry Powder Jet Printer £65,646.00 Shoufeng YangInvibio Ltd extrusion freeform fabrication of PEEK for health care

application£42,400.00 Shoufeng Yang

TOTAL £13,829,300.43

Structronics; background at Southampton

SULSA; Technology Demonstrator• July 2011:

World’s first “printed” aircraft

• Newscientist video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRDg4UB9Ajg over 500,000 hits

Parts Manufactured by 3T RPD Ltd

3D printing UAVs• Fast

• Design freedom

• Complexity comes for ‘free’

• Multi-functional parts

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2SEAS-20exploded view

• Extensive use of Nylon 3D printing technology• Modular design• Redundant systems• All weather operation

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2SEAS-203D printed parts

• Fuselage, fuel tank and other complex geometry

parts have been produced through 3D printing

• Selective Laser Sintering technology

• Quick: from CAD model to final part in a few

hours

Multifunctional Parts• Fuel Tank

– Lifting body– Payload Pod

Attachment– Centre spar

support– High-lift system

support– Fuel sensor

mount– Baffle– Filler– …

3d Printed UAVs

SPOTTER*

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• 5th printed UAV at Southampton• *Southampton Platform for Observation, Tracking,

Telecommunications and Environmental Reconnaissance.

• Four stroke engines• Easier assembly/ disassembly

ASTRA* UAS to support climate scientists

* Atmospheric Science Through Robotic Aircraft http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~astra/

…through exploiting/developing technologies like: rapid prototyping

Massive Atmospheric Volume Instrumentation System

Chris Paulson

Developing a fleet of ultra-lightweight drones for atmospheric data collection

Balloon-launched drone swarm will fly pre-calculated paths and transmit data to ground

Conductive inkjet printing for ultra-lightweight UAVs – design-to-circuit ~3 hours

Dr Philip King

Structronics Research vision. • Integrated

Structures /sensors/ actuators

• Goal, reduced cost, reduced weight, increased reliability

• £3.5 EPSRC Capital grant

Vibration sensor

Strain sensor

Fuel level sensor

£3.5M Capital Project

Mobile Command and

Communications Centre (MC3)

Integrated Structures and Sensors Facility

(ISSF)

Systems Reliability Lab (SRL)

Creation of autonomous system sub-systems

Tested sub-systems for use in platforms

Platform Field testing of systemsPeter Wilson ECS

Damon Teagle NOCSJim Scanlan FEE

Jim Scanlan FEEDamon Teagle NOCSPeter Wilson ECS

Over 30 Academics across 3 Faculties

Autonomy, Intelligence, Robotics, Sensing and Platforms PeopleName Research area

1 Dr Rafic Ajaj FEE Morphing wings2 Dr Mario Brito NOCS Risk and Reliability3 Mantas Brazinskas FEE Rotary wing research4 Chris Crispin FEE High altitude UAV research5 Chang Liu FEE GPS denied environments6 Dr Justin Dix NOCS Coastal applications of UAVs7 Mehmet Erbil FEE Rotary wings8 Dr Maaten Furlong NOCS MARS facility9 Mario Ferraro FEE 2Seas maritime UAV

10 Yangzi Guo FEE Directional antennae for UAVs11 Dr Philip King FEE Lightweight UAV avionics12 Prof Andy Keane FEE UAV propulsion research13 Andrew Lock FEE 2Seas maritime UAV14 Dr Kirk Martinez ECS Vision and signal processing15 Dr Matt Mowlem NOCS Marine remote sensing16 Chris Paulson FEE Rapid prototyped UAVs17 Dr Alex Philips FEE Maritime autonomy18 Dr Stephen Prior FEE Rotary wing research19 Evangelos Papageorgiou FEE Concept design of UAVs20 Prof Eric Rogers ECS Control of AUVs21 Dr Andras Sobester FEE MAVIS EPSRC project22 Amrith Surendra FEE VDD RR sponsored research23 Prof Jim Scanlan FEE Unmanned capital grant/ H202024 Prof Damon Teagle NOCS Ocean, Earth Science Sensing25 Prof Stephen Turnock FEE Maritime autonomy26 Dr Nick Townsend FEE Maritime motion control27 Luke Teacy ECS Agents and control of UAVS28 Dr Glyn Thomas FEE Rotary wing research29 Dr Peter Wilson ECS Avionics systems30 Dr Scott Walker FEE Space systems31 Dr Russell Wynn NOCS Science user of AUVs32 Aleksander Lidtke Cubesat design

Thankyou

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