The Aerial International Robotic Racing of Unmanned Systems (AIRUS) is an event were multiple teams spread across the world come together to race Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). The inaugural race was held on December 5th, 2015 at the Rec Center at Texas A&M University. For more information about this event, click here.

This event was possible due to the team of students that worked hard to make it happen.

Team Profiles

 

  • Rhys Kroes

Communications Team Leader

International Communications Team member

Set up International Communications systems for Texas team

Local Communications Team member

Set up Local Communications system for Texas team

Ground Station Team member

Set up signal relays for UAV to ground station  

 

  • Roger Pham

UAV Team maintenance

Building and fixing the quadcopter.

Managing inventory.

International Communications Team member

Helping signal management

 

 

  • Seward Nguyen

UAV Team Leader

Directed the building and testing of the unmanned platform

In charge of maintenance and tuning for the control board

Directed and taught others about the fundamentals of the system

Local Communications Leader

Directed, and helped research the programs for the software down to a local level

Ground Station Team member

Set up the wiring and workings of the Groundstation (ties in with local communications)

International Communications Team member

Help research for the international communications setup

Graphics Designer/ Media coverage

Designed the logo and help came up with name AIRUS for this group

Took time lapses and videos of the group from start to finish.

International Pilot

First to land the unmanned platform in Sydney, Australia

 

 

  • Athena Vazquez

Competition and Obstacles team member

Helped collaborate with UAV team to determine feasible obstacle design and course

Set up competition/how it would run

Determined best obstacle design

Determined course design  

Determined placement of the event

Built obstacles

 

 

  • John Yeary

 

Competition and Obstacles team member

Helped collaborate with UAV team to determine feasible obstacle design and course

Set up competition/how it would run

Determined best obstacle design

Determined course design  

Determined placement of the event

Built obstacles

 

 

  • Drew Dorman

UAV Team member

Research on UAV platforms

UAV construction

Managing Inventory

Simulator set up

International test pilot

Helped coordinate and run events

 

 

  • Stephen Tytler

UAV Team member

UAV maintenance

Construction of quadcopter.

Managing Inventory

Tested the UAV simulator program.

Set up simulation tryouts.

Arranged skype meetings among UAV team.

 

 

  • Ryan Mutsune

Ground Station Team Leader

Ground station software research

3D printing

 

 

  • Samuel McConnell

International Communication member