Radio-Control (RC) Club, BITS Pilani

25/09/2017

The new recruits have completed their first project, the Mr. Moss! It is the most bare, basic design which is perfect to start off their RC club journey.
More to come soon...

15/08/2017

Be there!

04/08/2017

Radio-Control (RC), the Aerial Robotics team of BITS Pilani added another medal in their trophy box. The Team made an impressive debut in the SUAS competition annually conducted by AUVSI. The AUVSI SUAS Competition is designed to foster interest in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and to engage students in a challenging UAS mission. The competition required us to design, integrate, and demonstrate a UAS capable of autonomous flight and navigation, and ex*****on of a specific set of tasks. For this, the team made videos of flights, presented them to the jury and published a journal paper on the design and implementation of drone. In its maiden attempt, our team came 39th overall and 6th in India competing among the teams like IIT Bombay, IIIT Delhi, M. S. Ramaiah Institute, DTU, etc.
This newfound success has inspired the juniors to attempt it regularly from now on and seriously challenge for a top position.
Competition link –
http://www.auvsi-suas.org/competitions/2017/ .
Our Journal -
http://www.auvsi-suas.org/static/competitions/2017/journals/auvsi_suas-2017-journals-birla_institute_pilani.pdf

10/04/2017

Team AeroBITS is participating in SUAS 2017 conducted by AUVSI. This competition focuses on building an Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and performing a set of mission requirements. The competition is held in Maryland, USA on 14th to 17th June 2017. BITS is taking part in this competition for the very first time.
The BITSAA fundraiser page is up and running.
Check out the links below:
Competition link: http://www.auvsi-suas.org/competitions/2017/
BITSAA Fundraiser page: https://www.bitsaa.org/fundraising/team-aerobits

Team AeroBITS: The UAS Team of BITS Pilani

28/02/2017

Window seat view of Birla Gliding Club, Pilani.
Achieved Autonomous flight on a test drone. Take off, Waypoint navigation and RTL everything done without manual control. Landing was done manually as Auto Land will be done when a landing gear is applied to the airplane.
Way to go.!

This time we give you a on-flight view from a completely autonomous drone. This video includes autonomous takeoff and navigation with Pixhawk

14/02/2017

Another flight session with Pixhawk but this time with a perfect landing!!! :)

Another flight session with Pixhawk but this time with a perfect landing!!! Dark Times by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution lice...

12/02/2017

Pixhawk flight: Day 2

After the spectacular crash of the twin prop plane, we are currently using a Single prop plane with Balsa Wing for our tests.

We tried dead stick flight today!

Stay tuned for more videos.

After the spectacular crash of the twin prop plane, we are currently using a Single prop plane with Balsa Wing for our tests. We tried dead stick flight toda...

05/02/2017

Successful Test flight using Pixhawk stabilization.

According to our design for , we needed to test how Pixhawk behaves in a twin prop configuration. Our predictions were mostly confirmed as Pixhawk has no problem stabilizing a twin prop design.
Autonomous Waypoint Navigation Video Coming Soon. :)

Test Flight of a Twin prop corroplast plane with flight stabilization using Pixhawk. Take off using FBWA Mode, Cruise using Stabilize and FBWA mode and Landi...

14/08/2016

For those who missed the RC Club Recruitment Test log on to our website and click on Join Now!! :)
http://rc.bitspilani.org/

10/08/2016

Recruitment test for the RC club 2016 batch!

Candidates will be tested on :
1) Basic RC electronics
2) Basic Aerodynamics
3) Logic and Aptitude (Most important!)

In case of any queries, feel free to contact the undersigned.

Useful links for the test:
https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/UEET/StudentSite/airplanes.html
https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/forces.html
https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/wrong1.html
https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/right2.html
http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Complete-Guide-to-RC-Electronics/
https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/right1.html
https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Foundations

14/09/2015

Spaxels Quadcopter Swarm Lightpainting / Linz, Austria 12/11/2013 The Ars Electronica Futurelab is experimenting with long-time-exposure shots to create 3d-M...