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NEW [16.10.27] Ajou's student team SCV takes third place at a drone contest in China

  • 2016-11-02
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Ajou's student team SCV takes third place at a drone contest in China

[16.10.27]


Team SCV (Smart CTOL & VTOL), consisting of Ajou University students, finished third at IMAV (International Micro Air Vehicle Conference & Competition) 2016 held in Beijing, China.


IMAV 2016 is an academic conference on air vehicles involving relevant experts, which was held from October 17th to the 21st. The drone contest was held on the sidelines of the main event and was co-organized by Beijing Institute of Technology and the National University of Singapore.


Team SCV participated in the MAV 2016 Outdoor category, in which ten teams from eight countries took part, including South Korea, Germany, the Netherlands, China, Brazil, France, Iran, and Poland. The participating teams conducted their respective missions with autonomous drones.


Team SCV successfully carried out its missions, including a take-off from a moving platform, taking photos in the air and automatic mapping, dropping lifeboats, collecting and dropping water to fight fire, and landing on the ground. Team SCV took the third spot after teams from Germany and the Netherlands.


Team SCV (guiding professor Jai Hoon Kim, Department of Cyber Security) consists of Gi Tae Park (entering class of 2011, Department of Mechanical Engineering), Min Ho Kim (entering class of 2011, Department of Mechanical Engineering), Hyeon Nae Kim (entering class of 2011, Department of Mechanical Engineering), Gyeong Deok Kim (entering class of 2015, Department of Mechanical Engineering), Tae Soo Kim (entering class of 2011, Department of Industrial Engineering), and Hyeon Gyeong Yoon (entering class of 2013, Department of Cyber Security).


Team SCV was earlier selected for the '2016 LINC-UR Program,' part of the LINC Project, with its research mission entitled 'Develop Industrial Drones Using a Tilt Rotor,' and it participated in the contest with the support of the LINC Project Group.