In this project an airfoil optimization for the blades of a drone is developed. Since this semester I am abroad with an Erasmus Program, this project has been proposed by Giuseppe Quaranta, a teacher from the Politecnico di Milano, and accepted by my TFG director, Manel Soria. The work will continue the one developed by a group that is investigating and testing drone technologies. They have performed numerous tests with a conventional quadrotor operating with commercial blades. The idea is to investigate if a significantly better performance is obtained with blades designed specifically for this drone. The main objective is to increase the blade efficiency, which means increase the Thrust versus Power ratio.The procedure to be followed is briefly summarized as, first, a development of a numerical method to solve a BEMT applied to the blades of a drone, i.e. rigid blades. Then, the creation of an optimization process and finally the definition of the new blade geometry. Finally, the final blade is 3D drawn, in order to be printed and tested in the future in a Laboratory to compare the results with the original one

Development of a framework to optimize the shape of rotor blades for a Quadrotor Micro Aerial Vehicle with a Maximum Take Off Weight (MTOW) of less than 300 grams .