About UsThe University of Texas Aerial Robotics Team is composed of people from the University's Robotics & Automation Society. Our mission is to build an unmanned autonomous flying vehicle for the 2005 IARC competition. For Fall 2004 we are focused on a fixed wing system to complete the gps waypoint navigation stage. We will keep our working helicopter system in good shape but first we will get a foothold on testing procedures with the fixed system. Over 2003/2004 software was restored to great condition to successfully fly a helicopter in simulation and calibrate on the actual system! In 2003, a video is shown of a working hardware system but many software bugs... We entered the competition in 2002, performing well enough to be awarded second place in static judging. For more information about the IEEE Robot Team, visit http://ieee.ece.utexas.edu. For more information about the IARC competition, visit LaunchPoint For Aerial Robotics. Our team can be roughly divided into a hardware group and a software group. This division is only by each person's specialty and main responsibility. One of the great things about being on this team is being able to work on any job, and learn from others who have more experience in another area. You will often find someone listed under software working on hardware and vice versa. In fact, recently one of our members held a network programming class in our new trailer. During the couple of hours on the weekend ten members learned how to set up a tcp socket.
Here is a list of our active members:
Andrew Lynch Previous Members
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