Welcome to the homepage of the BYU UAV Senior Project. This project involves four-five competing teams composed of senior students in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Mechanical Engineering. These BYU teams will compete in April using a competition format similar to the National AUVSI UAV competition in June in Washington D.C. The main objective of the competition is to use an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) to navigate a prescribed course and obtain information about ground targets at unknown locations. This will involve building and using an autonomous aircraft, developing computer vision algorithms, and enhancing the control software to improve the behavior of the airplanes. Students selected from this class will represent BYU at the national competition in June.

AUVSI Competition Announcement

Preflight Checklist - Do these things before every flight!

Procerus Software and Resources

Inventory Checklist - Verify that you have everything you need

 

Cool Videos:

Infotech@aerospace - The award-winning Magicc Lab submission demonstrating general capability of Magicc Lab airplanes

Autoland - Demo of an airplane landing on a tarp placed at a known GPS location

Eye-on-target - Demo of a plane following an object on the ground using color segmentation