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UAV Forge is a multidisciplinary engineering senior design project with a focus on designing, building, and programming unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in order to complete the flight missions under a time limit. Through research and hands-on experience, students are able to work towards creating an autonomous aircraft. This project, UAV Forge, aims to allow students to gain technical skills and learn more about the engineering process. Through inspiring innovation and teamwork between different students from all the different areas of engineering disciplines, students are able to come out of the project with a broader knowledge of the different engineering fields. UAV Forge is looking for donations to help build our UAV as well fund our competition travel costs. We hope you can help us reach our goal! We would all appreciate any contributions you can make to our campaign! Please share with your friends, family, or any other contacts to help support our project. Your support will go a long way to helping us be able to reach our goals and become better engineers!
Subteams working together to prepare for the trust test
Our Mission:
Starting with a kit aircraft, UAV Forge must assemble and modify said kit in order to manufacture our own UAV and develop a competitive design that could both win competitions and be applicable to challenges in the industry, such as companies' research like Amazon's package-delivering. Our project goal is to assemble and efficiently modify an airplane model kit to house all the electronic hardware necessary. This involves being able to have a fully automated takeoff and landing program, demonstrate flight autonomy, an ability to transit UAV telemetry, hold an image capturing system, and finally being able to perform an airdrop of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle(UGV), carrying a standard water bottle. Our airplane will be used to test all radio communications, autonomous flight functions, and image capturing systems before everything can be mounted on the airplane.
Current design of our UAV The project had historically been a research project at UCI and has grown more popular over the years. Only recently has the project grown to encompass the competition aspect and grown our team to 60 members. UAV Forge aims to participate in a competition known as SUAS by the Association for Unmanned VehicleSystems International (AUVSI). Our primary objective is to determine the most optimal UAV design in order to fulfill the competition requirements and aim to win.
The Team
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