Delhi Technological University’s Unmanned Aircraft System (DTU-UAS), AARUSH X-1, was unveiled on Friday by V K Saraswat, scientific advisor to Raksha Mantri and director general, DRDO at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
The students of DTU have designed and developed this next generation UAS for urban applications with the mentoring support from Lockheed Martin, a major US avionics company. The function was presided over by former IAS officer, former secretary, Ministry of HRD and current chairman of the board of management of DTU, R P Agrawal.
Recently, the DTU-UAS was placed overall third after Cornell University and California State University. It was selected from among 35 international teams at the 10th annual student UAS (SUAS) competition organised by Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) 2012 in Maryland in June 2012. The team has been awarded a trophy and a cash prize of USD 5,100.
DTU-UAS defeated some of the biggies of the competition like North Carolina State University and University of Arizona, which had always been in the top five teams.
Saraswat said, ‘Innovations like these when pursued by the young undergraduate students, inspire great many other students in the country to pursue R&D as a career and support our national mission for innovation. The design and development of small unmanned aerial vehicle, autonomous submarines and autonomous ground vehicle are areas of great interest to DRDO as this will strengthen our resolve to safeguard our coastal areas, provide a reliable support to the army as also strengthen our Air Force for strategic defence.’
‘AARUSH X-1 is the finest example of what can be achieved through an effective industry-academia partnership in a tech university,’ P B Sharma, Vice Chancellor of DTU said.
The UAS is designed and developed by a 11-member student team from DTU, headed by Jayant Malani, fourth year B Tech student of electronics and communication. Sharma, and N S Raghava, faculty advisor mentored the team.
The project AARUSH X-1 got a major boost after the DTU entered into a MoU for the design and development with Lockheed Martin in November 2009. Initially, Rochak Chadha and Gaurav Gupta (both graduated now) have led the design and development team of DTU UAS. The DTU UAS is capable of carrying a payload of 8-10 kg and is able to attain a flying speed up to 120 kmph. It has great potential and number of civilian applications.
The students of DTU have designed and developed this next generation UAS for urban applications with the mentoring support from Lockheed Martin, a major US avionics company. The function was presided over by former IAS officer, former secretary, Ministry of HRD and current chairman of the board of management of DTU, R P Agrawal.
Recently, the DTU-UAS was placed overall third after Cornell University and California State University. It was selected from among 35 international teams at the 10th annual student UAS (SUAS) competition organised by Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) 2012 in Maryland in June 2012. The team has been awarded a trophy and a cash prize of USD 5,100.
DTU-UAS defeated some of the biggies of the competition like North Carolina State University and University of Arizona, which had always been in the top five teams.
Saraswat said, ‘Innovations like these when pursued by the young undergraduate students, inspire great many other students in the country to pursue R&D as a career and support our national mission for innovation. The design and development of small unmanned aerial vehicle, autonomous submarines and autonomous ground vehicle are areas of great interest to DRDO as this will strengthen our resolve to safeguard our coastal areas, provide a reliable support to the army as also strengthen our Air Force for strategic defence.’
‘AARUSH X-1 is the finest example of what can be achieved through an effective industry-academia partnership in a tech university,’ P B Sharma, Vice Chancellor of DTU said.
The UAS is designed and developed by a 11-member student team from DTU, headed by Jayant Malani, fourth year B Tech student of electronics and communication. Sharma, and N S Raghava, faculty advisor mentored the team.
The project AARUSH X-1 got a major boost after the DTU entered into a MoU for the design and development with Lockheed Martin in November 2009. Initially, Rochak Chadha and Gaurav Gupta (both graduated now) have led the design and development team of DTU UAS. The DTU UAS is capable of carrying a payload of 8-10 kg and is able to attain a flying speed up to 120 kmph. It has great potential and number of civilian applications.