We have made it to Brisbane and they let all of us into the country with all of our luggage. Half of us are sitting in the Brisbane Airport while the other half are fetching the rental vehicles. After they return to pick us up, its off to UPS to get our crate and finally be reuinted with the super hauler. Hopefully our next post will be later today from our hotel rooms here in Brisbane.
Cheers!
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Leaving for the Land Down Under
Team EagleEye: (from left) David Dvorak, Wyatt Shallbetter, Jesse Sorum, Kaci Lemler, Dr. Will Semke, Danny Hajicek, Keith Strang, Adam Gabbert
Today after many many weeks of hard work we depart for the competition. We have received word the crate with our UAV inside has cleared customs in Brisbane and is ready for pickup when we arrive. We thank everyone for their help in support to get us this far. Go SIOUX!
Friday, September 10, 2010
2010 UAV Outback Challenge
The 2010 UAV Outback Challenge is a competition put on by both private and public partners in Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia. It takes place on the week of Sept. 27, 2010. Here is a link to the website for the competition http://www.uavoutbackchallenge.com.au/2010/. A team from the University of North Dakota (UND) is traveling to Kingaroy to compete in this challenge. Our team name is Eagle Eye and we are made up of a group of electrical and mechanical engineering students. Eagle Eye is competing specifically in the Search and Rescue competition. The goal of this mission is to fly our UAV out to search for "Outback Joe", a dummy and find his GPS location. After we have the location of "Joe" we will drop a water bottle to him. Eagle Eye is a team made up of members of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Engineering (UASE) lab at UND. To see more about UASE check out our website http://www.uase.und.edu/. Our plan is to use this blog to update everyone on how the competition is going while we are at it. We will try to post an update every day at the competition and possibly a post or two more before we leave.
-Eagle Eye
-Eagle Eye
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