Unmanned Aerial Systems
Unmanned Aerial Systems
The goal of UAS is to build an autonomous aerial system that can compete in the AUVSI (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems) Student UAS competition. Quadcopters have become a very exciting field to work with because it combines all the disciplines of engineering (mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering) to solve problems without clear solutions. Our design looks to bring together all of these components to create a system that can effectively survey a piece of land and utilize computer vision to perform simple analytics on a video feed.
The AUVSI UAS competition requires us to have a fully autonomous unmanned system that can perform two main tasks and several optional sub tasks. These tasks are meant to challenge the power, navigation, control, and other components of a flight system. The main tasks are:
Our drone will be ready to compete in 2018.