With a strong fascination towards autonomous rocketry, most notably SpaceX and their progress with landing rockets I was keen to work on something of my own over the summer after the end of first year and learn more about what goes into developing such a system. I hence set out to build a rocket capable of thrust vectoring for stability since active stability and control systems play a critical role in more complex autonomous systems. I went on to design a model of rocket and 2-axis gimbal system on SolidWorks, design and put together a flight computer, design control system, develop a simulation and assemble the physical rocket.
- CAD Design: I designed a CAD model for the rocket on SolidWorks. I designed the nose, 2-axis gimbal and flight computer holder to 3D print for the rocket.
- Flight Computer: PCB designed and assembled, and software for flight computer writted.
- Control System: Simulation of system with aerodynamics developed in Matlab & Simulink. Control system for TVC developed.
- 3D Python Simulation: I developed a 3D animated simulation of the rocket launch