T-Works built hybrid UAV covers 45km

Hyderabad: T-Works successfully designed, developed, and tested its indigenous vertical take-off and landing autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), covering 45km in 33 minutes. This puts T-Works among the few organisations in India at present that can design, fabricate, integrate, and operate long range VTOL hybrid drones.

The airframe and its components were designed and fabricated by T-Works, using software design tools, 3D printing, laser cutting, and CNC routing machines currently available at the Phase-0 facility in Begumpet, Hyderabad.

The Airborne Medical Rapid Transport (AMRT25), with a 2.5m wingspan, is a hybrid UAV – launching and landing vertically like a conventional drone and then flying forward like a conventional winged aircraft. The VTOL motors are powered by a 10,000mAh battery and forward flight is powered by a 30cc gasoline engine.

A winged aircraft consumes up to 75 per cent less power than a conventional multi-rotor since the wings help produce the additional buoyant force. The AMRT design can carry much heavier payloads over much larger distances.