This project involves the redesign of a commercially available miniature blimp in order to perform indoor detection of airborne hazardous chemicals. A 60-in. long blimp is retrofitted with two gondolas and modified to reduce weight and increase lift. One gondola houses the horizontal propulsion unit and the wireless camera. The second gondola houses the vertical thrust unit and deploys a chemical detection strip in view of the camera. The redesigned blimp allows for indoor real-time detection of hazardous chemicals.

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Creator

• Krawiec, Timothy
• Parretti, John D.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 05E005M

Advisor

• Gatsonis, Nikolaos A.
• Demetriou, Michael A.

Year

• 2005

Date created

• 2005-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2021-10-11