Micro Aerial Vehicles for Search, Tracking and Reconnaissance
About Us

Contacts

For more information, please contact:

Mark Whitty (Team Leader)
or
A/Prof. Katupitiya (Director)

Email:
m.whitty@student.unsw.edu.au
j.katupitiya@unsw.edu.au

Telephone:
+61-2-9385-4125
+61-2-9385-4096
Fax: +61-2-9663-1222

Address:
School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering,
The University of New South Wales,
NSW 2052, Australia

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History and Previous Achievements

Initiated by Dr Tomonari Furukawa in late 2006, the project developed primarily throughout 2007. It resulted in the design and construction of a team of MAVs and UGVs which participated in the MAV08 competition in March 2008 held in Agra, India. The team won the award for 'Best UGV Performance'. In early 2009 the team worked towards the IMAV09 competition, held in Pensacola, Florida in June 2009. At that event, the team won third place in the indoor flight competition. The Currently the team is focussed on the IMAV10 competition to be held in Braunschweig, Germany in July 2010. Prospective sponsors are kindly requested to contact Dr Jayantha Katupitiya through his email address below.


Team photo 29/05/09

Team Members

Directors:
  • A/Prof. Jayantha Katupitiya
  • Dr. Jose Guivant
  • Dr. Ray Eaton
Leaders:
  • Mark Whitty
  • Michael Woods (onboard)
  • Derek Taprell (offboard)
Members:
  • Onboard team: Christopher Chare, Ronald Choi, Anselm Ma, Charoline Ng, Darko Petrovic, Harry Xiao
  • Offboard team: Steven Lee, Warren Jones, Karthik Sukumar, Wei Hua Chen, Shawn Goh, Nicholas Robinson
Technical advisors:
  • Daniel Watman
  • Lin Chi (Edward) Mak
Professional officer:
  • Alfred Hu
Alumni:
  • Guillermo Caceres Abril, Daniel Atkins, Bryan Clarke, Gabriel Kalkbrenner, Arjun Khurmi, A/Prof Makoto Kumon, Alexis Nicoletti, Farhan Qureshi, Philip Sammons, Ankit Upadhyay, Hang Xu, Kai Zhan, John Paul Zambrano