{"498851":{"#nid":"498851","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT-AE Students Take Home Top Awards at 2015 AHS Micro Air Vehicle Challenge","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo design teams mentored by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Eric Johnson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;took home top awards for their work at the 2015 Vertical Take-off and Lift (VTOL) Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) Student Challenge.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp; third annual competition was a part of the American Helicopter Society\u0027s Forum 71, which was held in Virginia Beach, VA, May 4-7.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn two separate competitions, the GT-AE\u0026nbsp;team bested designs from six other schools, taking home the first place awards in the manually piloted and autonomous flight categories.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The autonomous win was especially significant as Georgia Tech was the first team to successfully complete the autonomous mission in the history of the competition,\u0022 said GT-AE professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Marilyn Smith\u003C\/strong\u003E, who was formally acknowledged as an AHS Technical Fellow during the four-day AHS conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EParticipating in the design, construction and and deployment of the vehicle were GT-AE students\u003Cstrong\u003EDaniel Magree, Stephen Haviland, Dmitry Bershadsky, Takuma Nakamura, Ben Kawecki,\u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Niharika Arora.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECheck out\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LLHToSvsHgE\u0026amp;feature=youtu.be\u0022\u003Ethis video\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of their work.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022On every transition from manual to auto it was very clean and the vehicle itself flew great, \u0022 said Johnson, GT-AE\u0027s Lockheed Martin Associate Professor of Avionics Integration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022For the manual team, we were able to complete several very fast missions in a span of a few minutes. Judges were impressed with the vehicle as well as other design aspects, like IMU vibration isolation, flight time, vehicle speed, and\u0026nbsp;camera mounting - they angled it down for better target view.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe submission for in the autonomous category won\u0026nbsp;a $5,000 prize while the manually maneuvered UAV won $2,500.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAHS evaluators were particularly impressed with the submission in the autonomous category, writing:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This was an extremely challenging accomplishment, with the vertical takeoff and landing MAV required to fly from a take-off point and then locate a target completely autonomously, hover over the target, and then return to its origin without human guidance. The target, approximately 75 ft (23 m) away, was randomly moved just after liftoff by the MAV. The electric-powered MAVs were limited to 500 grams (1.1 lb), including batteries.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp; third annual competition was a part of the American Helicopter Society\u0027s Forum 71, which was held in Virginia Beach, VA, May 4-7.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Two design teams mentored by Dr. Eric Johnson took home top awards for their work at the 2015 Vertical Take-off and Lift (VTOL) Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) Student Challenge."}],"uid":"30502","created_gmt":"2016-02-10 17:11:33","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:42","author":"Sapna Mistry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-05-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-05-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"498881":{"id":"498881","type":"image","title":"GT-AE Students Take Home Top Awards at 2015 AHS Micro Air Vehicle Challenge","body":null,"created":"1455145200","gmt_created":"2016-02-10 23:00:00","changed":"1475895258","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:18","alt":"GT-AE Students Take Home Top Awards at 2015 AHS Micro Air Vehicle Challenge","file":{"fid":"204658","name":"ahs-awards.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ahs-awards.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ahs-awards.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":200652,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ahs-awards.jpg?itok=Zjb1K-d3"}}},"media_ids":["498881"],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"129781","name":"AHS"},{"id":"171695","name":"Dr. Eric Johnson"},{"id":"126111","name":"GT-AE"},{"id":"171696","name":"Micro Air Vehicle Challenge"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kathleen.moore@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}