BU Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Group

Some minor “scale” problems importing our new vehicle design into oursimulator.

A look at things to come, in watercolor.

Not every flight test can go well…

Helicopter Balloon Pop Challenge!!

For Engineer Week this year BU UAV Team hosted a helicopter race/challenge in the Photonics Building. Below are a few videos highlighting the event

Migration of old news page to new blog layout:

First successful test flight of the Generation II airframe:

Check out an early preview of our final vehicle design:

This is a video of a more finalized version of prototype #1. We made some progress on tuning the PID to improve stability and added rotor guards. Currently, we are focused on externally augmenting plant observe-ability by using an XBOX Kinect to provide 3D localization data to the flight computer. More on that to come.

Check out the video of our most recent flight test. More to come.