UK Aerial Robotics Team

The Aerial Robotics Team at the University of Kentucky is designing an autonomous aircraft with sophisticated image capture and analysis hardware and software to compete at the 4th AUVSI Student Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Competition in June 2006. The UAV is based on an off-the-shelf airframe with custom electronics for flight control and mission payload control. The airframe chosen is a conventional high-wing R/C model aircraft with autonomous control, high-bandwidth communications and state-of-the-art image processing that can generate composite photographs of large geographic areas. The system was designed as part of senior design courses and engineering technical electives by students in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Mechanical Engineering Department and Department of Computer Science at the University of Kentucky.

Project Poster
EPSCOR Presentation

• Designing plane helps UK students bridge skills
• Flying High : UK team places 5th, wins safety award

• PAX River Competition Workspace
• Tiny Interface Module Workspace
• IDEAnix OS Workspace
• UAV Height Above Ground Workspace

• The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI)
  
• AUVSI Student UAV Competition Homepage
  
• BIG BLUE Homepage
  
• UK UAV Group Homepage