Project number
25001
Organization
BAE Systems
Offering
ENGR498-F2024-S2025
Degraded Visual Environments (DVE), as defined by the US Army, is a “reduced visibility of potentially varying degrees, wherein situational awareness and aircraft control cannot be maintained as comprehensively as they are in normal visual meteorological conditions and can potentially be lost.” The BAE Systems Degraded Visual Environment Pilotage System (DVEPS) helps pilots stay aware of their surroundings even when visually flying blind.
The team will design and build a “DVEPS lite” that is a significantly simplified version of this system for a drone instead of for a Blackhawk Helicopter. The system will incorporate different imaging modes to give the drone situational awareness, enabling it to see objects both with a camera and with a distance measuring sensor. The system shall transmit this data down to a ground station, and react to objects in its path to avoid collisions. The team must thinking carefully about the design of the payload to enable it to send meaningful data, without weighing too much to fly.
The team will design and build a “DVEPS lite” that is a significantly simplified version of this system for a drone instead of for a Blackhawk Helicopter. The system will incorporate different imaging modes to give the drone situational awareness, enabling it to see objects both with a camera and with a distance measuring sensor. The system shall transmit this data down to a ground station, and react to objects in its path to avoid collisions. The team must thinking carefully about the design of the payload to enable it to send meaningful data, without weighing too much to fly.