Student News

June 27, 2014

Piscataway, NJ

RUTGERS AIAA TEAM EARNS 7th Place in AUVSI COMPETITION

The MAE department congratulates our AIAA team for their great finish at the international AUVSI Student Unmanned Aerial Systems challenge. Out of 48 registered teams from around the world, including countries such as India, Romania, Canada, Germany, Turkey, and Israel the team placed 7th overall. The team also received special recognition this year for outstanding sportsmanship by helping other teams.

The competition was held at an annex of the Patuxent River Navy base in Maryland. The main goal of this competition is for each student team to build an autonomous air vehicle that is capable of a number tasks assigned by the judges. The main tasks are waypoint navigation, target search and imaging, and target characterization, with a number of secondary objectives included. It also consists of a complete technical report about the system and a flight readiness review oral presentation.

The RU Autonomous team consisted of seven AIAA members including rising seniors Vinay Panjabi, John Kelly, and Conor McCaffrey, rising juniors Tim Pearson, James Chen, and Timothy Beyer (AIAA Team Lead and President), and rising sophomore Tatsat Parekh.

Congratulations Rutgers MAE AIAA team for this achievement!