THE TEAM MANITOBA UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE : DESIGN GOALS AND PERFORMANCE

Team Manitoba has created a camera-equipped unmanned aerial vehicle with a 69 inch wingspan capable of taking off, landing, and navigating between GPS coordinates on its own at a top speed of 65 km/h for 30 minutes (longer if the minimum speed of 33 km/h is used). The search pattern designed by Team Manitoba is useful for airspaces which can accommodate the 800 ft UAV turn diameter. Software for detecting arbitrarily shaped, rotated, and scaled stationary ground targets to enhance human analysis of the video feed, whose integrity is enhanced by a custom-designed antenna, remains under development.