The School of Mines Unmanned Aerial Vehicle team is one of the newest teams on the campus. The team was formed in the spring of 2003 and consists of several students from a variety of majors.
The team's goal is to design and build an Aerial Vehicle and sub-vehicle to compete in the International Arial Robotics Competition. The Vehicle will be capable of flying 3 Kilometers via waypoints, After which, it will search for and find a specific building. Finally it will launch the sub-vehicle. The sub-vehicle will then enter the building and relay video information back to the base station.
The real challenge comes from the fact the entire system will be autonomous, meaning the entire process will be controlled by computers on-board the vehicle.
The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Team explores the frontier of aerial robotics. The team would like to someday develop some new technologies which will be used in both commercial and military UAV’s.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Video (wmv)
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Website
