Need Drone/Vtol Enthusiats (dronepicker?)

[Squish4058]

So at uni we are doing a 20 or so man team to build a vertical lift and land drone that can do a certain number of things

£5000 budget

carry a payload of 2kg +

waypoint navigation

GPS

Some automation such as landing+takeoff

I was wondering if anyone knew of any drones that can do this?

 

I will accept quad copters but would prefer the more rare Vtol, hyrbid rotor designs

 

Many thanks (I just need yall to google basically)

[Hackentosher]

Hi, how are you? 2kg payload is nothing for a larger platform, my small 250 sized aircraft produces around 1.3kg per motor. Larger motors and more importantly, props, allow for massive amounts of thrust. For your use case, I think a hexacopter running some big motors and a dji GPS system will so nicely. Unfortunately there is no pcpartpicker for multirotors, so you have to do the work yourself. I don't know of any multirotor retailers in GB, but the YouTube channel HPIguy might be useful.

 

Vtol fixed wings are possible, but a multirotor will be much simpler and much more stable. Im also not familiar on the control boards for Vtol fixed wings. You might be able to do it with a traditional multirotor flight controller, but I'm not sure. 

 

Also check out my So You Want A Drone Guide linked in my signature, it might answer some of your questions.