UAV Competition: Winners are know!
The Short Course on UAVs and Small Aircraft Design including the 1st VKI International UAV Competition took place on May 20-22, 2014 at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics and was a great success with around 130 participants.
The Course was co-organized by Mr. Didier Breyne from OAD and Dr. Jean Muylaert from the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics.
This first competition on the design of high-speed UAVs involved at the beginning 17 teams from over 100 students. After the first internal report, 13 teams were still in competition. The first prize was a wind tunnel test campaign in the Transonic / Supersonic facility at the VKI for the 3 first teams. The second price was a 20 license software ADS developed by the OAD. The third price offered by Willem Anemaat was a dedicated book by Dr. Jon Roskam entitled “Lessons Learned in Aircraft Design”.
The teams in competition were coming from all over the world:
- A§M 1, Université de Liège, BELGIUM
- A§M 2, Université de Liège, BELGIUM
- A§M 3, Université de Liège, BELGIUM
- AERODRONE, Middle East Technical University, TURKEY
- AEROMYS, Federal University of Minas Gerais, BRAZIL
- BME-HEAT, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HUNGARY
- BRUAIR, Université Libre de Bruxelles / Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
- EUROAVIA HELSINKI, Aalto University, FINLAND
- GOSHAWK, Middle East Technical University, TURKEY
- KUZGUN, Middle East Technical University / Anadolu University, TURKEY
- ORION, Middle East Technical University, TURKEY
- ROLLING WAVES, Universidade FUMEC, BRAZIL
- SKY TEAM-SANT USB, San Buenaventura University, COLOMBIA
Congratulations to the winners:
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1st Price BRUAIR From the University: Université Libre de Bruxelles / Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Members of the team: Prof. Patrick Hendrick, Simon Abraham, Nicolas Cormond, Pieter Dehairs, Matthieu Detavernier, Michael Hinderdael, Laurent Taymans |
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1st Price AERODRONE From the University: Middle East Technical University, Turkey Members of the team: Prof. Serkan Özgen, Enes Aydın, Taylan Büyüksural, Ufuk Erdem, Osman Güngör, Mustafa Gürler, Mete İnekçi, Fatma Karagöz, Zeynep Yaşa |
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1st Price AEROMYS From the University: Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Members of the team: Prof. Paulo Henriques Iscold Andrade de Oliveira, Rodrigo Amorim Torres, Matheus Monken Ganem, Joel Laguardia Campos, Sergio Lucio Lopes Duarte, Luciano Magno Fragola Barbosa |
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2nd Price A§M 2 From the University: Université de Liège, Belgium Members of the team: Prof. Grigorios Dimitriadis, Prof. Ludovic Noels, Gaëtan Brouwers, Adrien Crovato, Colin Defise, Tina Freches, Valère Hotterbeex, Sébastien Reyes-Vermot, Veronika Simikova |
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3st Price A§M 3 From the University: Université de Liège, Belgium Members of the team: Prof. Grigorios Dimitriadis, Prof. Ludovic Noels, Mohamed Benmouna, Hüseyin Güner, Michael Jeunehomme, Thomas Lambert, Adrien Moray, Leo Schlembach, Mithat Umay, Mickaël Vanderliden |