Upcoming Plans
In 2018, the Aerial Robotics Club at NC State competed in the
AUVSI Student Unmanned Aerial Systems
(SUAS) competition at Webster Field Annex, MD. This is the 16th year
the club has competed, and also the 16th year of the competition. The
Aerial Robotics Club is the only team that has competed in every year
of the competion. The club returned to Webster Field this year with a
brand new airframe, Akela I. This year, the club is going to focus on
building the all new Akela II platform, making improvements to Akela
I's design and construction to create an even better aircraft.
The SUAS competition requires fully autonomous takeoff, flight, and
landing, with completion of a waypoint course and interoperability of
telemetry with a judge server. Additional objectives include an
emergent target, off-axis target, payload drop, and search pattern.
The Aerial Robotics Club attempted every objective except automatic
target detection and autonomous sense and avoid with great results.
The team placed second overall and second in mission performance.
The Aerial Robotics Club will compete at the 2019 AUVSI SUAS
competition, with major airframe and software development in the
works. It will be an exciting year for ARC!
