This document describes a student project to design an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) called the "space squid" to deliver goods inside a space station with zero gravity. The UAV would use undulating propulsion like a squid to maneuver, generating thrust through a flexible membrane powered by articulated rods. Students from the IAET aeronautical engineering program developed the concept and conducted simulations and prototype testing. Their design aims to be more energy efficient and able to operate in confined spaces compared to traditional propeller-based drones. The students hope to further develop their innovation to support future manned space missions.

1. Aviation I.A.E.T
“LOOK DEEP INTO NATURE AND THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING BETTER” .
ALBERT EINSTEIN

2. Who Are We ?
 Eng/Ahmed Helmy Hamed: Aeronautical Engineer
working at IAET as a laboratory engineer
 Basem Hesham Ali : Student in Aeronautical
engineering ,IAET
 Mohamed Saeed Ragab : Student in Aeronautical
engineering ,IAET .

3. Zero Gee Bee
 Use a small scale autonomous drone vehicles
for delivering goods and items . This is very
important for the future large scale manned
space flight.

4. Our solution
 Due to conditions of the competition the UAV will fly inside the station
without any gravity force which is similar to the floating creature in the
deep ocean. Our solution was the [Squid] .
Squid : depends on the buoyancy force which balance the its weight .

5. Our solution
Weightless

6. Thrust force
 Undulating propulsion is our propulsion system which is used for move the
drone and maneuver it .

7. How to produce thrust .
From the CFD analysis for Undulating Propulsion for a real creatures we see The higher
speed in red after every body element. The sum of them produce thrust like The case of jet
engine which produce the thrust by the difference between input speed and the output
speed of the engine

8. Equation of thrust

10. space Squid
 1- Estimated dimension
mass = 5 kg
Length = 60 cm
Fuselage diameter = 20 cm
Fin length = 20 cm (maximum)
Speed = 4 m/s

11. How to generate the sin wave
 Generate a sinusoidal wave form in a membrane through the
activation of a articulated rigid structure that will support it .
 A prototype propulsion system was built that uses a flexible
membrane , articulated by a series of metal rods as a skeleton .
 Rods are operated through a eccentrics shaft who is receiving a
torque through induction electric servo motor .

12. Simulation Work

13. All Body Simulation

14. Last Imagination

15. Available positioning systems
 ultrasonic sensor , gyro and accelerometer
 Positioned system by cams in the station
 Main controller and secondary controller

16. Advantages of our design
 Such a propulsion system is more energy efficient.
 Less noisy than propellers.
 Could fly in narrow areas .
 Small size for the same pay load.
 Safe (waves don’t required high frequency )
 Autonomous
 The lowest drag configuration

17. The future
 One day , man will live at space … and when this happens we should be
ready with outstanding UAVs that helps us beside the robots , It's just the
beginning.
 We just need your support and encourage to take our innovation into the
space station.