{"68598":{"#nid":"68598","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Aerial Robotics Team Flies High at Annual Flight Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Aerial Robotics team soared to new heights at the spring\n2011 International Micro Aerial Vehicle Competition, capturing 1st place in\nboth the outdoor autonomy and outdoor flight dynamics contests. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech team joined university teams from all over the world for\nthe competition, held this year at Redstone Arsenal, Calhoun Community College\nand the Alabama Robotics Technology Park in and around Huntsville, Ala., from\nMay 23 - 27.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u2019s competition\nfocused on the autonomy of each flying vehicle, with the judges awarding more\npoints for inventions that operated without using remote or video control. Each\nteam was required to restrict the size and weight of their vehicles, to compete\nunder time constraints, and to combat external flight obstacles such as the\nwind during outdoor drills.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFor this year\u2019s competition, the Georgia Tech Aerial Robotics team\npartnered with Atlanta-based Adaptive Flight, Inc., which provided the team\nwith one of its Hornet vehicles\u2014a micro, unmanned rotorcraft system. Developed\nfor military surveillance use, the Hornet is one of the world\u2019s smallest and\nmost advanced helicopters, equipped with an autopilot system, GPS-coupled\nnavigation tools, and an advanced mechanism that allows it to drop objects on\nspecific targets. The team then modified the hardware and software of the craft\nfor two missions for the competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team exceeded previous records set during the event\u2019s flight tests\nduring the competition. For the outdoor autonomy competition, the team\u2019s Hornet\nwas able to complete a specified course, identify and drop balls on two\ntargets, and land in a designated area in three minutes, beating the time\nallotment of 10 minutes. The team was also able to complete the highest number\nof circuits around the outdoor flight dynamics course in a four-minute window.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EEstablished in 1991, the Georgia Tech Aerial Robotics team consists of\nundergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers from the Daniel\nGuggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering and the School of Electrical and\nComputer Engineering. Lockheed Martin Associate Professor of Avionics Integration\nEric Johnson of the School of Aerospace Engineering is the faculty advisor for\nthe team.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESponsored by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, the International Micro Aerial Vehicle Competition takes place once a year in different parts of the world and serves as a platform to exchange and showcase new concepts in aerial automation and robotics technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Aerial\nRobotics team soared to new heights at the spring 2011 International Micro\nAerial Vehicle Competition, capturing 1st place in both the outdoor autonomy\nand outdoor flight dynamics contests.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech Aerial Robotics team took 1st place in both the outdoor autonomy and flight dynamics contests."}],"uid":"27462","created_gmt":"2011-06-28 11:53:06","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:40","author":"Liz Klipp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-06-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-06-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"68599":{"id":"68599","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech Aerial Robotics Team - spring 2011","body":null,"created":"1449177185","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:05","changed":"1475894594","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:14","alt":"Georgia Tech Aerial Robotics Team - spring 2011","file":{"fid":"192616","name":"gtar.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gtar_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gtar_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":45158,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/gtar_0.jpg?itok=zB_EgkM5"}}},"media_ids":["68599"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/uav.ae.gatech.edu\/","title":"Additional team information"},{"url":"http:\/\/springimav2011.org\/","title":"Spring 2011 International Micro Aerial Vehicle Competition"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.adaptiveflight.com\/","title":"Adaptive Flight, Inc."}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"13558","name":"College of Engineering; Georgia Tech Aerial Robotics; International Micro Aerial Vehicle Competition"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["klipp@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}