Using RFID in Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems
January 1, 2010AeroVironment, Inc. Engineering, 2009-10
Liaison(s): Dave Wilbur ’68, Peter Crescenti, Phil Tokumaru
Advisor(s): Carl Baumgaertner (S), Donald Remer (F)
Students(s): Austin Anderson (F), Timothy Challener (F), Corinne Cho (TL-F), Kevin Hsu (TL-S), Christian Jolivet (S), Alexander Kurtis, Alexander McAuley (S)
AeroVironment would like to investigate the feasibility of using radio frequency identification (RFID) to speed up their shipping process for their Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). In addition, AV would like to investigate embedding an RFID integrated circuit into the UAV to automatically update flight configurations for their UAVs by scanning the tags located on the UAV parts.