Northrop Grumman Corporation has taken on the prime sponsorship of the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) student competitions for 2012. The competitions give high school and college students worldwide the chance to design, develop and operate unmanned systems for sea, land and air. The students receive a hands-on learning experience on how unmanned systems operate on their...
Boeing is encouraging the next generation of engineers and scientists to think innovatively about aerospace during this year’s unmanned airborne vehicle (UAV) Outback Challenge. The competition will be held during October in Kingaroy, Queensland. The aerospace competition, supported by Boeing Australia subsidiaries, Insitu Pacific and Boeing Research & Technology–Australia (BR&T-Australia), gives students and aerospace enthusiasts valuable experience in designing, building, testing...
Company Demonstrates Commitment to Creativity and Invention by Supporting the 10,000 Year-Clock and Rewarding Progressive Projects Boynton Beach, FL – The Boca Bearing Company, one of the most trusted names in ceramic bearing and lubrication technology, today announced that it is celebrating its 25th year in business by giving away over $20,000 in cash and prizes as part of...
By Hermione Wright Enfield Independant Three students missed out on $100,000 in prize money despite winning an international aircraft competition. Middlesex University students Mehmet Ali Erbil, 26, Mantas Brazinskas, 25, and Witold Mielniczek, 29, were one of nine teams to enter the UAVForge competition in America. Mehmet Ali Erbil, from Enfield, had spent four years working on the small unmanned...
Natalie Blair SALINA — The first year of competition has been a winning one for Kansas State University Salina’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Club. The club just placed seventh at the 10th annual Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Student Unmanned Aircraft Systems Competition, bringing home $3,750 in prize money. The competition was June 13-17 at Patuxent River NAS, Md....
By: Mark Rockwell For all their sophisticated capabilities, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) still have some issues when it comes to ‘perch and stare’ surveillance operations, according to the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency. Those shortcomings came up at DARPA’s recently completed UAVForge, a crowdsourcing competition at Ft. Stewart, GA aimed at the design, construction and eventual manufacture of an advanced small...
VAMUdeS group achieved the first position at the AUVSI SUAS Student Competition which was held in St-Inigoes, Maryland. This event gathered more than 30 teams from universities all around the world. After winning the Canadian competition, team VAMUdeS (Autonomous Aerial Vehicle of the Université de Sherbrooke) of the engineering faculty, Université de Sherbrooke, demonstrated its capabilities at the AUVSI...
Xipiter Integrated Products Team (IPT), Mississippi State University’s unmanned aircraft systems team, placed in the top ten among 26 international contenders, winning over $3,500 in the AUVSI Student UAS competition this week at Patuxent River Naval Air Station. The team flew using its Xawk 5 SN 002 unmanned aircraft, a flight vehicle and system designed, fabricated, and integrated entirely...
Follow the fun live at the other big UAS contest happening this weekend. “AVC” is short for “Autonomous Vehicle Competition”, and this is our fourth time hosting this event. In the past, we’ve ran this as a spring-time event – leaving the vehicles susceptible to various types of inclement weather. So, by popular demand, we have moved the AVC...
A team of Simon Fraser University students is testing its robotic aircraft at an international competition this week. They are competing at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) 10th annual Student Unmanned Air Systems (SUAS) Competition June 13-17. The main competition runs Friday and Saturday. Calling themselves Team GUARDIAN, the students in the Mechatronics Systems Engineering program faced some...
