MAV Team BYU Frenzy

Brigham Young University

Team leader Travis Millet

MAV Specifications

  • structural
    • Diameter Rotor 450 mm
    • Weigth 500 g
    • Building material : off the shelf frame with specific equipment
  • Flying equipments
    • Motor : 2 brushless motor (RZ Micro Heli)
    • Power source : LIpo 3S
    • Servo : 2
  • Navigation and information equipments
    • 1 axis Video camera 2,4 GhZ

Presentation

off the shelf modeler air frame tuned by the team for this two rotor helicopter. It was full equiped with navigation system and GPS. See the technical paper and the oral presentation

Pictures & movie

The video in Hi-resolution, click here !

Credit photo Sylviane & Christian Veyssiere @eroland

Award

MAV07, 3rd US-European Competition on Micro-Aerial vehicles in Toulouse and and 7th European Micro Air vehicles conference and flight competition

10 th Place

MAV07 Indoor mission

Toulouse, France, September 17-21, 2007

P. Travis Millet, Jared Yates and Neil Johnson

Notation size : 456 mm Final score 9 Normalized score 123,6

Detail notation Indoor mission

Description of tasks (click for details)
Task 0
Mark
1
Take-off
Level of autonomy
6
Task 1
Mark
0
Land on and take-off from platform
Level of autonomy
2
Task 2
Mark
0
Identify target 1
Level of autonomy
2
Task 3
Mark
0
Enter building
Level of autonomy
2
Task 4
Mark
0
Identify target 2
Level of autonomy
2
Task 5
Mark
0
Identify target 3
Level of autonomy
2
Task 6
Mark
0
Exit building
Level of autonomy
2
Task 7
Mark
0
Land in landing zone
Level of autonomy
2
Score tasks
7
sum (Task i(mark * level autonomy))
Score gross
9
Score tasks*(2-Lmax/500)^3
Score normalized
123,6
Ranking