Middlesex University's Team I-Spy tri-rotor unmanned air vehicle was developed over 15-months starting in March 2007.
A team of six including two lecturers and doctoral and undergraduate students, the vertical take-off and landing UAV has an endurance of up to 15min using Lithium Polymer batteries and can carry a payload of 1kg (2.2lb).
The team took the tri-rotor to the UK Ministry of Defence's Grand Challenge, held 16-19 August 2008, but did not demonstrate it preferring to show an unmanned ground vehicle. Although the tri-rotor uses a helicopter version of the Micropilot autopilot software it had had "stability issues".
on November 3, 2008 11:36 AM | Reply
Basically, it didn't work then!
on March 31, 2009 6:02 AM | Reply
That will teach you to use Micropilot - avoid at all costs.