Comparative Analysis of 3D Printed Propellers
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2019
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This project aims to design and test 3D printed propellers for drone applications. Through a
self-developed iterative design process utilising MIT’s QMIL program, this project hope to increase the
power transmission efficiency of propeller designs. Currently the most efficient propeller design (55%
efficient) is an improvement on the default propeller (28% efficient) by about 27%. This design is at the
tail end of a promising upward trend in efficiency. This procedure was effective in quickly producing and
testing propeller designs.