By Robin Dudgeon Southport Aerospace Centre Inc. played host this past weekend to the 2012 Unmanned Systems Canada student competition, which saw five university teams compete for cash prizes. Students from five Canadian universities – including Carleton University, the University of Alberta, University of Sherbrooke, Simon Fraser University, and the University of Victoria – pitted their unmanned aerial vehicles...
By Iman Sherif, Staff Reporter Abu Dhabi: Emirati engineering students gained practical experience at a different level last week while testing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) they built on their own during a nationwide Higher Colleges of Technology competition. Male and female students divided into nine teams from across 17 campuses applied their mathematical and scientific knowledge to build and...
I will post more videos as the teams start putting them on Youtube. Once the UAV Challenge organisers have released the results of the Deliverable 2 Go/No-Go round, the links to these videos will become that team’s pages, so watch this space. Team LOAF and DGX Team ANU-CVR If your video isn’t on...
The deadline for teams to present their Deliverable 2 (D2) videos was 18 April, 2012. The UAV Challenge organisers are now analysing the teams’ video and technical report submissions to determine which teams go through to the next round of the competition. The next round of the Outback Challenge will see teams having to fly a minimum of...
Outback Challenge contestants Melbourne UAV have just 47 hours to build, test fly and then film their 2012 competition entry before the D2 decision cut off date. In February the airframe that they had been working on for two years was lost due to a communications failure. There was not enough time to build a new one. Ridding to...
Hardware, software, modeling and gaming developers sought to link with emergency response and science communities to design robots capable of supervised autonomous response to simulated disaster As iconic symbols of the future, robots rank high with flying cars and starships, but basic robots are already in use in emergency response, industry, defense, healthcare and education. DARPA plans to...
By Calli Forbes Sherwood Park News A Sherwood Park-based air cadets squadron was given some help from Strathcona County on Thursday, as they look to raise funds to send them soaring over to England this summer. The 12 Edmonton Royal Canadian Air Cadets Squadron received $5,500 from the county in order to help send the group to represent Canada...
Higher Colleges of Technology Teams mentored by Northrop Grumman Engineers, will design, build and fly an automated unmanned aerial vehicle. Teams will demonstrate what they have learned in a flying competition in April 2012. The winning team will be invited to attend AUVSI’s (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International) Unmanned Systems North America, 7-10 August 2012 in Las Vegas,...
The Alberta Aviation Museum hosted a press conference at 10am Friday March 30 at the Aviation Museum to announce a special program to promote youth in Aerospace with an international twist. The Alberta Aviation Museum received an invitation from the Schools Aerospace Challenge, which takes place at the prestigious Cranfield University in England, to field the First Canadian Team...
The DARPA UAV Forge competition is now approaching the Fly Off event at Fort Stewart, Georgia. No specific date for the Fly Off has been announced as yet but the organizers have stated that it will be held sometime around middle of May this year. Congratulations to the 12 teams that have been voted past Milestone 3 – Live Demo and are now the...
