Thirupathi M

About Thirupathi M

I am a Drone UAS/UAV/VTOL Senior Integration Engineer and Electrical Design with 6 years of experience working on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Drones. I have worked on UAVs, viz. Fixed Wing vehicle, Multi rotor systems. This includes my involvement in working on UAV/MAV subsystems - Autopilot systems, An Electronic Testing and Measurement technician experienced in the Manufacturing, Mechanical and Aerospace industries. etc. I am looking for an opportunity in India and abroad in the same domain.

Experience

1. Senior Technician

   General Aeronautics Pvt Ltd

   Dec 2018 — Present · Bangaon, IN

   Involved in all the integration activities of UAVs of all classes, such as GA3-Surveillance, GA3-Agricultur and Fixed Wing VTOL. • Have experience in the avionic systems integration and testing to ensure the reliability of the LRUs. • Worked on various platforms such as Quad copter, Hexacopter and VTOL Unmanned air vehicles which are used in surveillance, monitoring, agriculture and emergency medical supply UAVs. • Ensured in keeping up the UAV fabrication facility to its standards for the ease of building up the vehicles. • Been the part with flight test team and ensured all the logistics during the customer demonstrations. Micro/Unmanned Air Vehicles –Integration and Testing & Development Activities • Avionics (Control Electronics) Testing for UAVs & MAVs • Micro Fiber Composite (MFC) Actuators & DC-DC Convertors Testing for Morphed-wing MAV (Wind Tunnel Environment) • Ground and Flight Testing (Model Assembling, Soldering-Wiring, Instrumentation and Calibration) for single/bi/tri/quad-copter UAVs. • Development activities of transition flight maneuvers for tilt rotor configuration for 3kg & 7kg class mini UAV & Gyro based Vertical Take-Off & Landing (VTOL) UAV • Co-axial Rotor/Propeller for Single Copter MAV • Control Board Tuning of Tri-copter for Stable Flight (Mode: Hovering) • Proximity/Obstacle Detection using Ultrasonic Sensor for MAV/UAV • Piloting of Multi-rotor system Commercial Aircraft Testing(Sukhoi Su-30MKI) • Sensor Installation (Soldering-Assembling) & Measurement on aircraft’s external structural components.

Education

• Department of Technical Education, Government of Tamil Nadu

  Diploma, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician, 80% (FIRST CLASS WITH DISTINCTION)

  2009 — 2012