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Description

Voltabase is is a multirotor drone system that is designed to solve drone's battery problems (short flight time (10~20 min) and long charging time (about an hour)). This system involves two components: a drone and a base. The drone will communicate with the base and, when the battery is low, it will autonomously land on the base to automatically hot-swap the battery. The base will continuously charge and store three packs of batteries to make continuous flight mission possible. Essentially, the base works just like gas stations for cars, except the downtime is much shorter because the batteries get swapped, instead of getting charged. We are going to use the grant to build the charging station.

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