MAV Team The Beast

Sherbrooke University, MAVUdeS

Team leader Charles Vidal

MAV Specifications

  • structural
    • Wing span 490 mm
    • Weigth 450 g
    • Building material : Foam /Fiber Glass & Mylar
  • Flying equipments
    • Motor : 1 brushless motor (800 DF)
    • battery LiPo 2S
    • Servo : 2
  • Navigation and information equipments
    • Paparazzi
    • Video camera 2,4 GhZ

Presentation

4th generation in 3 years experience. A major evolution from first MAV (Garmish 2005). From RC Piloting to autonomous mission. 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
7 th Place

MAV07 Outdoor mission

Simon Jobin, Michael Lévesque, David Rancourt, Charles Vidal

Notation size : 488 mm Final score 10 Normalized score 238

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
1
Locate target 3
Level of autonomy
6
Task 4
Mark

0
Level of autonomy
0
Task 5
Mark
0
Level of autonomy
0
Task 6
Mark
0
Level of autonomy
0
Task 7
Mark
2
Level of autonomy
1
Score tasks
9
sum (Task i(mark * level autonomy))
Score gross
9
Score tasks*(2-Lmax/500)^3
Score final jury
10
Score normalized

238
Ranking