The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) is now in it's third year of hosting an annual student unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) competition. The competition is aimed at stimulating and fostering interest in this innovative technology and encouraging careers in the field. The competition challenges the students to design, fabricate and demonstrate a system capable of competing a specific and independent aerial operation. This competition is held at the Paux River naval base in Ingles, Maryland (Webster Field).
This will be Cornell's third year entering the competition and we hope to regain our world championship. The dates for this year's competition have been set as Thursday June 30th, 2005 through Saturday July 2nd 2005. The 2005 rules have been posted, and can be viewed here (or click here for last year's rules). For further information, please visit the AUVSI website at http://www.bowheadsupport.com/paxweb/seafarers/default.htm.