Design of a Crewed Martian Aircraft

Design Synthesis Exercise - Group 15

This is the repository for the TU Delft DSE project of group 15. The goal is to design a Martian aircraft that can transport 2 astronauts over 1000 km. The selected design is a tiltrotor aircraft.

Links:

• See the developer's guidelines if you want to contribute
• See the project plan for the project organization
• See the baseline report for the generation and elimination of design concepts
• See the midterm report for the preliminary sizing and trade-off of design concepts
• See the final report for the detailed sizing of the tiltrotor subsystems

Setup

To get started with development:

1. Ensure that Python 3.11 installed.
2. Clone the GitHub repository by clicking on the green "Code" button above and follow the instructions.
3. Open the cloned folder in PyCharm (other IDEs can be used, adjust the following instructions accordingly).
4. Add a new interpreter in a virtualenv environment. This ensures isolation so that the packages for this project do not conflict with your preinstalled ones.
5. Install all required packages by opening requirements.txt and clicking "Install requirements". This ensures that everyone uses the same package versions, preventing bugs that might be hard to find.
6. Read the code and Git guidelines in this document so the code stays consistent and clear.