UAV developed by Delhi College of Engineering wins prize in US; Beats MIT, Cornell!

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UAV developed by DCE wins prize in US​

Tuesday 30 June, 2009.

A high-tech Unmanned Aerial Vehicle developed by a team of ten undergraduates from Delhi College of Engineering in New Delhi has won the prestigious Unmanned Aircraft System International Competition held recently in the US.

The DCE team surpassed 26 teams from top ranking American Institutes like MIT, Cornell University to notch the widely-acclaimed Directors Award organized by Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) in association with US Navy.

"The team was awarded a cash prize of USD 1,500 for successfully flying at the competition as well as for the best team efforts," R K Sinha, Dean Industrial Research and Innovations in DCE told a news agency.

Talking about the special features of the gadget, Sinha said, UAV, a fixed-wing aircraft powered by a 2-stroke engine, is capable of lifting weights up to 7 kgs, equipped with wireless cameras, sensors, GPS and onboard computers capable of long range wireless communications of more than 10 km.

"The entire autopilot and navigation system of the UAV was designed and developed by the team headed by Rochak Chadha, a second year student of Electronics and Communication Engineering supervised by the seniors in the college," Sinha added.

The competition was held at a US Navy base in Maryland from June 17 to June 22. In 2006, a DCE team had won the similar award under best innovation category. (RBY-29/06)

UAV developed by DCE wins prize in US - www.ddinews.com

 

[Screaming Skull]

Hi,

Here is the 2009 Student UAS Competition website.

2009 Student UAS Competition

Mission objectives-

The mission objectives are for an unmanned, radio controllable aircraft to be launched and transition or continue to autonomous flight, navigate a specified course, use onboard payload sensors to locate and assess a series of manmade objects in a search area prior to returning to the launch point for landing. The scenario of the mission is that you need to operate your system as part of the overall team which supports the United States Marine Corps. It will be entering a simulated combat zone that has both hostile forces and innocent civilians. It shall fly from its operating airfield to the combat zone along a predefined route that is designed to segregate it from manned aircraft as well as enemy air defenses. However your system will need to adjust its route at the last minute just prior to or after takeoff to avoid emerging threats. Additionally, while in route to the combat zone, your system will be asked to positively identify and provide accurate locations of targets that other platforms had detected. Once in the search area, your system will be asked to search the area and detect, identify, and provide the location and orientation of targets within the combat zone. It will also be asked to identify a target at a known location and to determine the location of a specific target. Additionally, if new intelligence dictates, the search area will be modified during the mission to examine a "popup" target (the "nofly" boundaries will remain unchanged). The Marines intend to call in an air strike based on your correct identification and location of hostile forces and put troops in harms way to protect innocent civilians. Therefore accurate identification and location are critical. Additionally, targets and civilians tend to move, so completing your mission objectives in a timely fashion is also important.

It is indeed laudable that guys from DCE managed to pull off such an arduous task with such limited resources at their disposal compared to MIT, Cornell, UCSD etc. Hats off to you guys!!! Keep up the good work

 

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Lockheed Martin shows interest in UAV made in India​

New Delhi, Sep 1 (PTI) A team from Delhi Technical University (DTU) which developed an urban aerial UAV has claimed that lack of interest shown by DRDO and some private companies in their project led to a US defence major showing interest to take it further. The DTU team claimed to have approached the DRDO to help and fund its programme to develop a small urban UAV and send it for participating in an unmanned aircraft systems competition in the United States.

"Last September, we had approached DRDO. They were taking a lot of time to decide on the issue and the process was also quite tedious. So, after some time, we decided to seek help from private Indian companies in the sector," DTU''s UAV team leader Rochak Chadha claimed.

"Mahindra Defence Systems did not send any reply to our e-mails and Tata Advanced Systems (TAS) cited recession for its inability to fund our project," he said. After facing rejection from the Indian Defence sector, the DTU undergraduate students went to the Department of Science and Technology (DST), which partially funded the trip to the US and the development of the UAV, he added.

The UAV developed by the DTU team can fly at an altitude of around 500 feet for about 60 minutes and can keep on clicking pictures during its flight.

Lockheed Martin shows interest in UAV made in India - Yahoo! India News

 

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Lockheed Martin to fund Delhi undergrads’ next-gen UAV​

NEW DELHI - Impressed by the talent of a group of engineering undergraduates who won top honours at an international competition for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), US aerospace major Lockheed Martin announced Tuesday it would fund their efforts to create a new generation machine that would have civilian and military applications.

“Here is a group of students who are undergraduates and have worked on a technology they don’t even have classes on,” said Ray O. Johnson, Lockheed Martin senior vice president and chief technology officer, while announcing the company would ink a deal with the Delhi Technology University (DTU), to which the 10 students belong.

“We will provide the broad parameters of the design requirements to be implemented by the students,” he added.

While congratulating the students, Johnson said: “This partnership is one more example of Lockheed Martins long-term commitment to India and the partnerships which we seek to develop and nurture.

The company will provide the student group with Lockheed Martin-generated design space to structure their efforts. The team will be required to make an initial design and then develop a flying prototype - with the drones hopefully going into production by the Commonwealth Games in October 2010.

These will be ideal vehicles for carrying out aerial surveillance at the Games’ venues and also for controlling traffic, P.B. Sharma, the vice chancellor of the DTU, which was previously known as the Delhi College of Engineering (DCE).

Sharma, along with other DTU faculty, had guided the 10 students who won the director’s award for the best team effort for demonstrating a successful flight of a UAV at the 2009 Association of Unmanned Vehicles System International (AUVSI) Student Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) competition.

Explaining the salient features of the new UAV, Rochak Chadha, a third year student of electronics and communications engineering, said the effort would be to increase its endurance to 10 hours from an hour the existing machine can stay aloft.

It will also run on an electric motor against the present petrol engine, we will downsize the autopilot and change the camera system for greater resolution and clarity, Chadha added.

Speaking about what motivated the team to start work on the existing craft, Chadha said: Technology for UAV’s is woefully lacking and the defence forces have to import these from Israel. We wanted to work on the ultimate level of robotics and to create something that was commercially viable.”

The global UAV market is currently estimated at $3.4 billion and has the potential to rise to $7 billion in 10 years, he added.

Asked if the defence ministry has been approached for potential purchase of the UAV, Sharma replied: The defence ministry and ADA (Aeronautical Development Agency) are aware of our capabilities. But more than that, there is tremendous potential for the machine in the civilian sector.

Lockheed Martin to fund Delhi undergrads’ next-gen UAV

 

[Developereo]

Good job!

 

[Kamakazi 69]

Wow congratulations. Now this is the sort of news that we in the sub-continent should hear more often. Ceers.

 

[proud_indian]

go india go

 

[leonblack08]

Congratulations to those talented young students.they surely made their country proud.

 

[Gabbar]

Wow congratulations. Now this is the sort of news that we in the sub-continent should hear more often. Ceers.

Hovercraft developed by Pakistani students​

Here is another interesting video of three 2nd year students from Sir Syed Science College, Tipu Road, Rawalpindi. They have devloped a hovercraft, that can lift 350 KG of weight.

Project is sponsored by Intel, under the name of Intel ISEF Awards. These students are nominated to visit United States to participate in International Science and Engineering Fair in May, where they will be exhibiting their project.

Let’s join Saad Hamid of Sizlopedia, who is with Mohammad Naeem Khan, Zaki Hussain and Mohammad Qasim, to know about their project, its demonstration and the benifits.

By the way, ISEF, Intel International Science and Engineering Fair happens to be the only global science competition for students in grades 9-12. It is a program of Society for Science & the Public to represent the pinnacle of high school science fairs.

This year’s program will include a record number of 1,557 high school students from 51 countries presenting 1,241 projects. Female students comprise 48% of those entered in the competition.

Finalists are selected annually from more than 550 affiliated fairs around the world. Each affiliated fair can send its top two individual projects and one team project to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.


xTCj2Ahnsss[/media] - HoverCraft Made by Pakistani Students

 

[LiberalPakistani]

Congrats to young students and their country.

 

[Patriot]

Congrats and instead of giving design to Lockheed Indian Companies like Tata should invest into it..

 

[PeaceForAll]

those Indian and Pakistani Students can probably start a joint venture...

 

[warlock]

Congrats to the Delhi college of Engineering(DCE) team.. (Delhi technological university now)
Btw the guys lived just below my room on ground floor in DCE boys hostel... its surprising that they are being discussed in this forum... Certainly big acheivement for them!!!