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QUT UAV Team |
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QUT Students building a unmanned aerial vehicle
We're a team of about twenty university students based within the Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering (BEE), all with varying amounts of our courses completed, who come from a variety of backgrounds but share a similar interest and a common goal. Our project manager is Shane Degen and in-conjunction with him, our section leaders and the rest of the team, we're competing to build a fully autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle. The competition is known as the ARCAA Outback Challenge, with the objective being to locate a lost bush walker, ideally without human intervention. We all have to use our areas of expertise along with good teamwork skills to accomplish this seemingly impossible task. Some of us are electrical engineers, aerospace avionics specialists and even mechanics as well as double degree students studying engineering and IT. However building is only half of the project, the other half is excruciatingly long repetitive testing. The due date for the competition is sometime near the end of September and we must have a fully working, tested and proven UAV by then. News items Drop the pilot! Students' new plane set to soar See alsoSmart systems research |
