For Instructors
Considering addressing the challenge as the topic of a one-semester CPS course? Or maybe as a project in a senior robotics or software engineering class?
Course Structure:
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PHASE 1: Use the CPS-VO’s OpenUAV active resource to design and evaluate autonomous missions involving recovery in a two UAV team. For instance, in a leader follower configuration, the follower will have to determine that the leader has crashed, and recover it. During this phase, team will start building or retro-fitting one quadrotor aircraft that will be used for the outdoor challenge. This phase is ideal for concurrent indoor tests. |
PHASE 2: Teams will begin outdoor experiments with their quadrotor aircraft, and after thorough evaluation by organizers in early April, culminate in top six top teams participating in a fun outdoor challenge in May 2018 at the TIMPA airfield in Arizona!
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Homework Suggestions
Below is a list of areas for assignments catering to student skills and interests.
- Component-based software (message passing, distributed deployment, using ROS)
- Model-based design (state modeling, sequence modeling)
- Software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop verification and validation
- Vision-based control
- Sensor sweeping and multi- vehicle coordination for search and rescue missions
- Vehicle: design and build as part of the course
If you have questions, please contact Jnaneshwar Das at 2018UASchallenge@cps-vo.org