Indoor Testing Facilities available at the NASA Unmanned Autonomy Research Complex (NUARC)

Windshaper

Windshaper fan array for dynamic low-speed and hovering flight research.

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A large WindShaper fan array is available for dynamic low-speed and hovering flight research. The WindShaper is ideal for generating arbitrary wind gradients and wind gusts via a simple Python API. A companion WindProbe is also available for quick surveys of flows. The WindProbe utilizes the lab’s OptiTrack motion capture system to extract the position and orientation of the 5-hole cone probe located on the probe tip.

Large dynamic fan array: 9’x7’, 1134 fans arranged as 567 ‘wind pixels’

Wind speeds: 0 to 16 m/s (0 to 36 mph/31 kts)

Acceleration: 4 m/s2, Deceleration: 2.5 m/s2 This also touches on aspects of foreign policy.

Each fan is programmable via Python scripting

Replicates steady winds, gusts, and wind gradients Furthermore, experts in global summit note the continued relevance.

WindProbe for handheld mobile wind data collection.

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