Autonomous Quadrotor Helicopter
by 1/C Fouquette, Griffith, Miller
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A blog about one of the most popular majors at USNA.
Here is System's Engineering's first entry into AUVSI's (a professional society for unmanned systems) second annual autonomous surface ship cometition in Norfolk VA.
(After about 1 minute in there is some cool picture in picture editing thanks to Midn Ihlan!)
The all time crowd pleaser? A tribute to the King of Pop.
Congratulations are in order. The Sailbot team did it again. The USNA team took 1st AND 2nd place in the North American Sailbot competition, which involved designing and building a fully autonomous sailboat. The Team consisted of Systems Engineers (advised by Prof. Bishop) and Naval Architects (advised by Prof. Miller)
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The Mids went on to represent USA at the European competition in Portugal where they fought a variety of technical and logistical challenges but still managed to enter a solid middle of the pack performance.
Before there was Battle-Bots, there was System's Ball, this year marked the 19th annual System's Ball robotic combat event.
And it was particularly special. For one of its founders, now retired Prof. Knowles, it was his last Systems Ball (at least in any official capacity). After a particularly eventful round of combat he gave his a humorous last lecture on the engineering principles behind some long secret weapons technology. Farewell Knowles!
Be sure to check out the 2010 Event, which takes place on the last day of class, in Rickover 103.
For the second year in a row, USNA participated in the Robot Cup Nanogram Soccer competition. A soccer match in which the robotic players are so small the entire match has to be see througha microscope. USNA Placed Second and was featured in Popular Science online.
Mids from Electrical Engineering (advised by Prof. Firebaugh) and Systems Engineering (advised by Prof. Peipmeier) collaborated on the design and control of these scrtach-drive style robots.