June 2017: A Technion student team including students from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (headed by VISL students and staff) was awarded 3rd place in the Student Unmanned Arial Systems (SUAS) competition which took place in Maryland, USA.
This is the fourth time in a row that Technion students are placed among the five leading teams in the competition, this year competing with 59 international teams.
This achievement summarizes an intensive year during which the team self-developed and demonstrated a system that performs autonomous take-off and landing, autonomous navigation, automatic detection and classification of targets, aerial cargo delivery, obstacle avoidance, communication etc. The Technion team built two identical aircrafts which were installed with advanced systems including: stabilized camera, airborne computers for control and image processing, communication systems and more.
The project team included students from the Faculty of Aerospace and Aeronautics and the Andrew & Erna Faculty of Electrical Engineering, with support of advisors and laboratories from both faculties.
Main project supervisor: Dr. Dror Artzi (AE)
AE student team: Adi Toporek (team leader), Jason Benchetrit, Imri Tzror, Daniel Joseph, Sigalit Grinberg, Janna Bruner, Max Solovey, Haim Elya Brod, Emmanuel Bensoussan, Alexander Shender, Shani Bajayo
EE student team: Eyal Genis (team leader), Roi Yehudai, Ohad Markus, Ofir Milul, Dan Ben-David, Netanel Ibn-Danan, Aviv Hasson
AE advisors: Yevgeni Gutnik, Dolav Saimon
EE advisors:
Vision and Image Sciences Lab: Johanan Erez, Ron Amit, Amit Aides
Communications Lab: Denis Dikarov, Alex Hodison, Ben-Zion Joselson
Control Robotics and Machine Learning Lab: Koby Kohai
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YNET DIGITAL (Hebrew)
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