Updates

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.

After 2018 competition in the spring, the software, embedded, and airframe subteams have been hard at work improving upon our experience from the 2017–2018 school year. Here’s an update from each of our teams:

After a year of hard work the UCSD AUVSI team went to Maryland with our backup plane to compete and to show off the work we accomplished during the school year. The competition pits 30 schools from around the world During the mission demonstration we were able to fly and complete image reconnaissance. Even when losing GPS lock during flight we were able to continue flying and complete the mission. The flight was a good learning experience on what we need to do in the future to be able to adapt to different mission configurations such as very large obstacles.