Team 20: Flight management system for unmanned aerial vehicles
Above: A design created to identify weather conditions and changes intended flight plans of unmanned aerial vehicles as a result.
Top Image: Team members from left to right: Niko Pagones, Justin White, Keenan Kimmick, Arun Kumar, Joseph DeRose, Marcus Stears.
This project increases the safety and efficiency of an unmanned aerial vehicle鈥檚 (UAV) flight by accurately identifying weather conditions and autonomously changing the UAV鈥檚 original, intended flight plan in response to weather conditions that are detected to be above safe-flight-operational thresholds.
Sponsorship
Sponsored by Boeing
Director
Ross Chessman
[video:https://youtu.be/QmuE3qPCQOg]
Team Members
- Joseph DeRose - Test Engineer
- Keenan Kimmick - Project Manager
- - System Engineer
- Niko Pagones - Manufacturing Engineer
- Marcus Stears - Logistics Manager
- Justin White - Financial Manager
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