MAV Team Mini Vertigo

University of arizona

Team leader Gavin Kumar

MAV Specifications

  • structural
    • Wing span 300 mm
    • Weigth 192 g
    • Building material : Foam carbon fiber
  • Flying equipments
    • Motor :2 brushless motor (AXI)
    • Power control : Castle Creation Phoenix 25
    • Power source : LIpo 3S 700mAh
    • Servo : 3
  • Navigation and information equipments
    • 5 Gyros GWS
    • Video camera 2,4 GhZ

Presentation

VTOL to horizontal flight . See the technical paper

Pictures & movie

The video in Hi-resolution, click here !

Credit photo Supaero

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
9 th Place

MAV07 indoor mission

Gavin Kumar Ananda Krishnan, Michael Griffis, David Addai-Gyansa, Hosain Bagheri,
and Roman Krashanitsa

Notation size : 365 mm Final score 14,3 Normalized score 196,7

Post-flight session

. See the post flight presentation

Detail notation mission

Description of tasks (click for details)
Task 0
Mark
1
Take-off
Level of autonomy
2
Task 1
Mark
0
Land on and take-off from platform
Level of autonomy
2
Task 2
Mark
2
Identify target 1
Level of autonomy
1
Task 3
Mark
3
Enter building
Level of autonomy
1
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
14,3
Score tasks*(2-Lmax/500)^3
Score normalized

196,7
Ranking