Autavia · 2025
Tilt-rotor firefighting research platform
A physical prototype linking configuration design, aerodynamic analysis, onboard integration and fire-response research.
Project Direction
Type 7-2 advances the Autavia tilt-rotor line through airframe design, aerodynamic analysis, prototype manufacture, onboard integration and field-flight records. The same project archive also develops a firefighting mission layer covering fire-source perception, route planning and collaborative operation.
Platform Architecture
The physical platform connects configuration, propulsion, avionics and mission interfaces within a shared airframe.
Fixed-wing cruise geometry, vertical-lift propulsion and tilt-vector integration define the core configuration.
XFLR5 and configuration studies supported wing, control-surface and operating-envelope decisions.
Flight-control, power, communications and payload interfaces were assembled around the prototype platform.
The platform architecture reserves a clear path for sensing, fire-response payloads and cooperative planning.
Fire Response System
The research layer combines visual, infrared and LiDAR information with fire-source recognition and route-planning methods. Swarm coordination and precision deployment are explored as a broader mission-system direction.
An improved YOLO-based research route addresses small targets and complex fire backgrounds.
Visual, infrared and LiDAR data provide complementary environmental inputs.
Route optimisation considers task priority, obstacle avoidance and coordinated movement.
Engineering Development
Tilt-rotor geometry and compound-wing arrangement established the platform direction.
Simulation results supported wing and control-surface refinement.
Airframe construction, wiring and propulsion integration produced a complete physical record.
Ground assembly and field-flight imagery document the transition from workshop to open-air operation.
Selected Development Record
Connected knowledge
A published study on a self-powered sensing approach for real-time vibration monitoring and aeroelastic-instability detection during tiltrotor transition.
Autonomous Systems · 2026An engineering note on the shift from stabilising an aircraft to coordinating a complete mission system.
