University of Southampton

Rank Team Final Score 1 HALO 47.7 2 AEROQUAD 39.1 3 ATMOS 37.3 4 SWIFTSIGHT 37.3 5 NAVYEOD 36.5 6 EXTRACTOR X 32.0 7 DHAKSHA 31.5 8 PHASE ANALYTIC 30.5 9 GREMLION 19.2 http://www.uavforge.net/uavhtml/ Scoring Breakdown:   Baseline Objectives Possible Points Awarded Points 1 Conduct operations, preflight, and safety checks (5 pts) 5 2 Perform […]

Here is a link to one of our Baseline missions on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqToSsOT1Xs Note: This was a live video feed over 2 miles at 1280 MHz via a 2.5 W Video TX using a Yagi antenna positioned 30 m up a tree.

Making good progress in the competition. Completed all of our Advanced tasks with the exception of obstacle avoidance. Still working on the baseline task – 2 mile NLOS ingress and egress land on a building and perch and stare for up to 3 hrs. Getting closer on every attempt. HALO Roof Landing  

Middlesex 2nd Yr BSc team CIN-A-TIT (Ravi & Matthew Rush) beat French team RIR by 2-1 in a very competitive final of this year’s Eurobot (UK) event held at Middlesex University’s Trent Park Campus on Friday, 4 May 2012. Of the ten teams who entered the competition, seven were from Middlesex University, one was from France, […]

The DARPA independent government panel has announced the finalists for the fly-off at Fort Stewart, Georgia, USA (10-20 May 2012): http://www.suasnews.com/2012/03/13564/uav-forge-competition-fly-off-finalists-announced/ The only entrants from the UK are both from Middlesex University: Team HALO SQ-4 Recon (collaboration with BCB International Ltd)

 The Live Fly Demo phase has just been completed and there are now only 20 teams in the competition: 10% Single Rotor, 10% Tandem rotor/Co-Axial, 35% Quadrotor, 10% Quadrotor (Tailsitter), 10% Hybrid Rotor/Fixed Wing 20% Hexrotor/Y6, 5% Octorotor. Note: All the videos can be viewed and voted upon from: www.uavforge.net 1. HALO  [Y6]  (5 Team Members) HALO Live […]

The ASL currently has two of the twenty-six entered teams in the DARPA UAVForge competition 2012. Milestone 3 is a Pass/Fail live fly test where each system has the chance to demonstrate it’s novel features and capability (see below). See HALO in action at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htHrUA-DE10&feature=youtu.be  Stats (as of 19 January 2012) 1449 Registered Users 137 Registered Teams (representing […]

http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/883904-rise-of-the-robots-machines-capable-of-replacing-human-workforce By James Day, Oliver Stallwood – 6th December, 2011

The SQ-4 Nano UAV is to feature on the xmas edition of the popular Gadget Show to be shown on Christmas Eve (24 Dec 2011) at 8pm on Channel 5. http://www.channel5.com/shows/the-gadget-show/episodes/episode-20-111

Prox Dynamics of Norway working in partnership with Marlborough Communications Ltd (UK) have been awarded the UK MoD contract to provide Nano UAS capability to the UK Armed Forces: Initial estimated total value of the contract : Value: 2 500 000 GBP (Including VAT. VAT rate (%) 20,0) Total final value of the contract: Value: […]