University of Southampton

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: […]

The ASL has entered a team into the DARPA UAV Forge competition: http://www.uavforge.net/ “UAVForge is a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic (SSC Atlantic) collaborative initiative to design, build and manufacture advanced small unmanned air vehicle (UAV) systems. Our goal is to facilitate the exchange of ideas […]