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MCC Daily Tribune

Engineering science students are participating in an international and a national competition this summer

Engineering Science students are gearing up this summer to participate in 2019 SUAS international and a ASEE national competition.

The 2019 SUAS international competition focuses on autonomous missions that include Interoperability: the UAS downloads mission details, uploads aircraft telemetry in real time, and uploads mission deliverables to an external judge-provided system, Autonomous Flight: the UAS autonomously takes off, flies within boundaries, navigates a series of waypoints, and lands, Obstacle Avoidance: the UAS autonomously avoids obstacles, which can be stationary or moving, Object Detection, Classification, Localization: the UAS takes pictures of a search area, detect objects of interest, classifies its characteristics, and provides a GPS position, Air Delivery: The UAS autonomously drops an unmanned ground vehicle, which carries an 8oz water bottle and delivers it to a designated location. The competition is held on June 12th to 15th at Webster Field, St. Inigoes, Maryland of the Naval Air Station (NAS) in Patuxent River, Maryland. http://www.auvsi-suas.org/competitions/2019/

Team members: Patrick Chernjavsky ,Greyson Chudyk, Patrick Wilber, Peter Owens, Madison Brewer, Justin Payne, Logan Hampton, Brandon Reiner, Yaro Kifor, Jon Stanley, Joel Freeman (faculty)

The 2019 ASEE national competition focuses on autonomous robot that can rescue stranded and injured victims of a hurricane (wood peg toys) from random locations and return them to either the hospital or storm shelter while avoiding obstacles. Extinguishing a simulated fire caused by down power lines also earns bonus points. The robots will have a maximum time of 120 seconds in each of their four allotted trials. The robot must begin within an 8" X 12" X 10" high size limit but may expand to any size during a trial. An Exhibit Session will precede the robot trials. It is held on June 15th to June 19 at Tampa, Florida. https://www.asee.org/conferences-and-events/conferences/annual-conference/2019

Team members: Alex Spoor, Olivia Taylor, Vince Cimino, Katy Pohler, Emma Kelley, Dustin Crane, Jake Carbone, Ben Mulvehill, Geoffrey Berl (faculty)

We are very proud of our competing students. If you happen to see the following students in the corridor please wish them best of luck.

Christopher Kumar
Engineering Science and Physics
06/03/2019