Design Competition For High School Students
A Drone Design Competition for Aspiring Aviation & Aerospace High School Upperclassmen
Competition Principles
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Advanced High School Team Competition
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Sportsmanship Emphasized
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Drone Delivery Challenge
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Autonomous and Teleoperation Challenges
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Low Cost Entrance
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Engineering Design Competition
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Community Supported Open Source Drone
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Authentic Outdoor Challenges Utilizing GPS, Compass, etc.
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Realistic Lift Capacity For Delivery of 10 oz Payload
Rules of Engagement
Drone Hardware
- Compatible flight controller (FC) that supports the PX4 or Ardupilot firmware
- Drone frame size (400mm – 600mm diagonal from motor shaft to motor shaft)
- Max of 4 propellers
- Arm and Pre-arm switches mandatory
- Battery range 3s (11.1V) or 4s (14.8V)
- FPV Cameras and monitor
- Forward facing
- Downward facing
- Multi-camer configuration
- Gimbals, if applicable
- Transmitters
- Remote control with at least 8 channels – 2.4 GHz
- Radio telemetry – 915 Mhz
- Video Transmitter (VTX) – 5.8 GHz
- Drones must be able to delivery several payloads and remain in the air for the maximum mission duration of five (5) minutes
Recommended Hardware Vendors and Stock Kits
- onPoynt Drone Solutions – onpoynt.com
- HolyBro – www.holybro.com
- NXP – www.nxp.com
Ground Control Stations (GCS)
- QGroundControl – qgroundcontrol.com/
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- MissionPlanner – ardupilot.org/planner/
- Windows Only
Safety Precautions
- Lipo battery storage bags
- Propellers removed when working on the drone
- Safety goggles recommended when working with the drone
- Gloves should be on hand, if needed
- Return-to-land & Flight termination
- UAV must have either autonomous return to home/land (RTH . RTL) enabled for flight termination
- These must be configured with the location specified in the Mission Flight Boundard appendix
- Both must be activated by a safety pilot and the ground station
- After 30 seconds of communication loss, the aircraft must automatically RTH / RTL
- Geofence activated on all missions and flights
- Pilot-In-Charge (PIC) with Part 107 certification
- If a team does not have a licensed Part 107 PIC, anyone at the competition with a Part 107 can act as the team PIC, if willing to do so