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MCC Daily Tribune

MCC Is Doing Something That No Other Community College Has Done, Ever.

On June 13, the MCC UAS team is heading out of Rochester to compete in an international competition in Maryland. We have never been involved in a competition that required this level of technical difficulties. No other community college has competed in this event.

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.

  1. Greyson Chudyk
  2. Luke Petrison
  3. Leith Kilmer
  4. Joseph Corvelli
  5. Neil Muir
  6. William Gardner
  7. Nandakumar Unnikrishnan

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 a payload object so that it lands undamaged at a provided GPS position.

Here is the 2017 Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Student Unmanned Aerial Systems (SUAS) competition rules and regulations:

https://www.auvsi-suas.org/static/competitions/2017/auvsi_suas-2017-rules.pdf

This project was funded by Xerox STEM grant.

Christopher Kumar
Engineering Science and Physics
06/12/2017