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MEDIA
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Images
We've accumulated a tremendous amount of pictures and videos. More than you'd want to load on a single page. Pictures are broken up and displayed on different pages according to the content or material of the picture. Read each description below and view our pictures and videos to your heart's content!
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Proof of Concept UAV
The Proof of Concept UAV was our first noteworthy attempt at building a real UAV. This is a 48"-wingspan airplane made out of carbon fiber, fiberglass, and foam. It's only real payload is a 2.4 GHz analog video camera and transmitter. This airplane was constructed to hone our design and fabrication skills, in order to prepare us for designing and building our Competition UAV. It was built mostly during the fall semester, and successfully test flown in January. It has a conventional tail, a round fuselage, and overall very conventional/traditional dimensions and flight characteristics.
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Rocket
This section contains all the pictures and videos pertinent to this year's competition rocket. Our rocket is 14'-tall, and has a 10" diameter. It is specially modified from a Polecat Thumper kit to house and safely deploy our UAV. Our rocket carries 4 altimeters, a GPS locator beacon, and a RF homing beacon. It also features a very special deployment scheme, and, for competition, an M-class motor.
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Telemaster
The Telemaster is an off-the-shelf, 8'-wingspan aircraft that we're using to flight-test our electronics payload before we install it into the Competition UAV. This study, reliable plane should be easy to fly and quite capable of carrying our ~2 lb payload consisting of the computer, cameras, sensors, batteries, etc.
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Electronics
These are all the pictures and diagrams of our electronics suite to be flown onboard the UAV. Our electronics payload consists of a 500 MHz computer, two cameras, a large array of airplane-pertinent sensors, and several transmitters. Mostly diagrams and schematics right now, but very cool nonetheless.
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Competition UAV
Our Competition UAV has a square fuselage, a 48"-wing span, a rotating wing, a folding propeller, and folding V-tail empennage. It is designed to fit inside our 10"-diameter rocket. It is designed to our electronics payload, which will weigh in at just under two pounds, per the current plan. The payload includes a forward-facing camera and a downward-facing camera, both on tilt-pan gimbal mounts, as well as GPS, airspeed, altitude, and angle roll rate and accelerometers for an artificial attitude representation on the ground.
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Miscellaneous Pictures
These are all the pictures and videos that don't fit into any of the above categories.... Lots of mini projects and side projects, practice fabrication, failed projects, etc. Projects documented in here include our work with the Corsair ARF r/c airplane, work with the R-DAS, and other abandoned electronics systems, etc. All sorts of random stuff!
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Media from the 2007-2008 USLI Team
This is a page of some of the pictures taken during the 2007-2008 USLI project. That year we flew a rocket-launched UAV, but the UAV was very simple, and not very robust or reliable. It was built out of corrugated plastic, and aluminum, and carried a single camera. In here are pictures of design, testing, and the competition itself, as well as some videos of deployment testing and various launches.
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