Petrol drone for NATO assemble FER students in the object of 210 borongaj campus. When they completed it, Morus will be 2 meters wide and 25 kg heavy aircraft with four propellers. In the air will be able to hold out an hour and fly over 20 nautical miles. Morus is a new success of FER’s robotic laboratories Larcis, and except teams from FER in the consortium are also the teams from the University of Dubrovnik, a team from the Sarajevo Faculty of Electrical Engineering and researchers from the University Limeric from Ireland. The project won in the competition of 32 projects all over the world, and it is worth 6 million kuna. The project aim is to create a spacecraft that would instead of people be able to go out alone to the open sea, for example, find an underwater vehicles, conduct inspection of fire site, oil wells, windmills … FER members have decided for petrol drone because it can fly longer, it is more stable and more reliable, and can carry a total of 75 kg of cargo. Another innovation are weights heavy 1.5 kg, which will be moved left right with high speed in order that drone could be stable and easier to manage. Morus could already in March do its first flight, and the system of grips for him will develop a team from Dubrovnik. Carbon frame has been ordered from China, and one part of the propeller is made of beechwood and one part of the carbon fiber. At the end will be chosen material that shows better. The construction of aircraft is designed at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Shipbuilding, and each engine has 12 horsepower. The spacecraft won`t be used for military purposes, and NATO participates only with financial resources in purchase of equipment. When they finish drone they plan to establish startup company and commercialize the aircraft.
