He went to the appointment with a suitcase full of enthusiasm and returned with a feeling of complete satisfaction. The Horus UPV team from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) and integrated into the Spontaneous Generation Platform, has secured third place in the UAS Challenge 2022, which took place in the month of July in Buckminster (England, United Kingdom).
This is also the first participation of the UPV team in this competition, in which students of various degrees from around the world with a predominance of engineering competed with each other to demonstrate the effectiveness of the system for vehicles of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAS). has competed. , which he has designed and built since October last year. In the case of the Valencian team, it was the H110 FALCO (Video).
Organized by the UK Institution of Mechanical Engineers, this ninth edition is attended by 33 teams, most of whom are from the UK, but also from the Netherlands, Pakistan, Portugal and Turkey.
The group representing UPV was made up of more than 40 students of various degrees, with a higher attendance of students pursuing degrees in aerospace engineering and master’s degrees in aeronautical engineering. HORUS UPV has completed a podium with representatives from Queen’s University of Belfast taking second place, and English team Perryton Heron from the University of Surrey re-validating the 2021 title.
According to Sergio García-Nieto, Professor and Project Supervisor of the Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, the fact of encountering their first participation has doubled the feeling of satisfaction in the UPV team. “The result has been spectacular because the team had no previous experience in the competition. In addition, they competed against universities with very large budgets”, argues García-Nieto.
The UPV team finished third overall, but won two other awards: first place in the airworthiness category and best start for a new entrant to the competition.
Joan Albert, as the student coordinator, highlights the difficulties she has had to overcome over the months. “We had hoped to act but we were in doubt. We have had unforeseen events until two days before the competition. Besides, it was our premiere. With all this, we have not been able to get a bigger reward”, he defended.
Regarding the future, Albert is committed to the continuation of the HORUS project through the formation of two teams: the competition team, which will seek first place in the next edition of the UAS Challenge; And Research One, focused on leveraging the progress of recent months, as well as all the work done since the HORUS project took its first steps in 2018.
The UAS Challenge is an annual competition that came out in 2014. It begins in October of each year, with the start of the vehicle design by the teams, and ends in England, where there is a final stage in which all the participants are involved. The world competes with each other to demonstrate the best performance of its vehicles in humanitarian emergency situations.
The term UAS refers to the acronym in English Unmanned Aerial System, and encompasses the entire system that allows controlling and directing an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), popularly known as a drone. Is.
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