MAV Team Florida Gators

University of Florida

Team leader Thomas Rambo

MAV Specifications

  • structural
    • Wing span 300 mm
    • Weigth 300 g
    • Building material : Glass and Kevlar Fiber
  • Flying equipments
    • Motor : 1 brushless motor
    • Power source : LIpo 2S
    • Servo : 2
  • Navigation and information equipments
    • Kestrel TM Autopilot
    • Video camera 2,4 GhZ

Presentation

Small personalized flyingwing with flexible wing. 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

Toulouse, France, September 17-21, 2007
6 th Place

MAV07 Outdoor mission

Thomas Rambo, Brandon Evers, Kyuho Lee, Albert Lin

Notation size : 314 mm Final score 13 Normalized score 309

Detail notation outdoor mission

Description of tasks (click for details)
Task 0
Mark
1
Level of autonomy
1
Task 1
Mark
0
Level of autonomy
0
Task 2
Mark
0
Level of autonomy
0
Task 3
Mark
0
Locate target 3
Level of autonomy
0
Task 4
Mark

0

Level of autonomy
0
Task 5
Mark
2
Level of autonomy
1
Task 6
Mark
0
Level of autonomy
0
Task 7
Mark
2
Level of autonomy
1
Score tasks
5
Score gross
12
Score final jury
13
Score normalized

309