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Triton UAS is off to a fresh start this year with new members and new leadership. The airframe subteam has worked on and made progress on the unmanned ground vehicle, and rebuilding the main airframe, Fiber One. The embedded team has been hard at work on the antenna tracker as well as the signal and power sister boards. The airframe and embedded team have worked jointly on outfitting and wiring the backup airframe, Swallow, for a maiden flight in the beginning of Winter quarter. The software team worked on generating artificial targets, a user interface for the path planner, and interfacing with the judging server.

On October 24th, 2019 the Triton UAS Team met with the San Diego-based company, Brain Corp at their headquarters. Brain Corp is involved in the development of autonomous vehicle systems and software, and has also worked with other fellow student-run teams such as UCSD RoboSub and San Diego City College RoboSub. While our team got to meet peers from other student-run teams, Triton UAS also had the wonderful opportunity to talk with Brain Corp’s VP of New Product Development, John Black.

The Triton UAS team has accomplished several goals during the 2018–2019 school year. We have made significant progress in refining the structure and algorithms in our software, making it more robust and extensible. Our embedded team has been hard at work adding new features to our electronics to improve the power system and the communication systems. Finally, we have added new features to our flight platform in order to handle both new and old challenges. With these additions and improvements, we are entering the 2019–2020 year prepared and eager to excel at all the challenges of the SUAS competition.

Unfortunately, Triton UAS was not able to attend the AUVSI SUAS competition this year because our airframe crashed too close to the competition deadlines. Even though the team did not attend the competition this year, we did submit a technical design paper which includes a full description of the airframe we were planning to compete with.