As stated earlier in our Winter 2020 Recap and Spring Goals blog post, our goal was to finish and publish our technical design paper by the original competition deadline, May 15th, to prepare for next year’s competition, show potential and current members, future and current sponsors, as well as UCSD engineering departments what we have accomplished this year despite these limiting circumstances. The complete paper is below:
Triton UAS’ Winter Quarter was filled with significant milestones for both our project and outreach efforts, such as the maiden flight and tuning of our main flight platform, the Swallow, and various outreach events throughout the quarter.
On February 16th, 2020, Triton UAS conducted a maiden flight for the Swallow. There were ideal flight conditions with a clear day, little wind, and no rain.
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.