AUVSI SUAS COMPETITION

For the 2022-2023 tenure, the team has decided to participate in the SUAS Competition, which AUVSI in the USA hosts. The SUAS competition fosters interest in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), stimulates interest in UAS technologies, and engages students in a challenging mission.

The competition requires students to design, integrate, report on, and demonstrate a UAS. It should be capable of autonomous flight and navigation, remote sensing via onboard payload sensors, and execution of a specific set of tasks which include:

• Autonomous Flight. The UAS must take off, fly within boundaries, navigate a series of waypoints, and land.
• Obstacle Avoidance. The UAS must avoid other aircraft sharing the airspace through sense-detect-avoid.
• Object Detection, Classification, Localization. The UAS takes pictures of a search area, detects objects of interest, classifies their characteristics, and provides a GPS position.
• Air Delivery. The UAS autonomously drops a payload, so it lands undamaged at a target GPS position.