- Frame Type
- X-quadcopter
- Campaign
- 2024
- Result
- 1st Place · Safety & Airworthiness Award
- Status
- Flown · Archived
Project CARDINAL, an X-shaped quadcopter, engineered for endurance, precision, and mission efficiency, CARDINAL is the result of thoughtful design choices, in-house fabrication, and reliable autonomous systems.
Full recordA paragraph describing what this airframe was asked to do in competition — the tasks flown, the conditions, the outcome.
- Maximum Takeoff Mass
- 9 677 g
- Material Composition
- Carbon fibre, PLA (3D printed), fibreglass, epoxy, aluminium
- Top Airspeed
- 60 KIAS
- Object Detection
- Nvidia Jetson Nano + PTZ camera, custom-trained model
- Power System
- 2 × 10 000 mAh 6S Li-Po (series)
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Illustrative Representative readouts, not recorded flight data. Real logs have not been published for this airframe.
- Battery
- 87%
- Altitude Hold
- NOMINAL
- GPS Lock
- 14 SATS
- Mission Completion
- 100%









