A low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) created using 3D-printed bioplastic
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this work, a four-person student team was given the challenge of designing, analysing, constructing, and testing a low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) prototype, which could meet or exceed a set of predefined performance requirements including range, altitude, time of flight, and load-carrying capability. In addition, the team was tasked with having their final design be composed of at least 70% sustainable material by volume. The final prototype took the form of a quadcopter with an airframe 3D printed from a plant-based bioplastic. This prototype was able to meet or exceed three of the four project performance targets, with time of flight being the lone failure. Besides serving as a proof-of-concept prototype of a functioning bioplastic-based UAV, this project is also a demonstration of 3D printing as an enabling technology that can allow even small design teams to realize complex geometries, enjoy enhanced design flexibility, and achieve high levels of UAV functionality with relatively limited resources. Finally, a discussion of important material parameters of 3D printed UAVs is presented.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it