WEEF Proposal (Work in Progress)

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Last updated: 2021-10-31 by Sahil Kale
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Description of Proposal

The Waterloo Aerial Robotics Group (WARG) is a team of passionate students developing autonomous aerial vehicles capable of performing various tasks. WARG will be competing in the annual Unmanned Systems Canada Student Competition this May.

This term, we are currently working on prototypes and test runs in preparation for the competition. This year has shown that we must be able to adapt to different scenarios and situations. There was a lot to be learned this year. With university opening again, more people are in person, and we are looking to take advantage of this opportunity. During this season we will need money to fund our various activities. We are currently in the process of creating our aircraft for this upcoming 2022 competition.

Currently we have 5 things that we need funding for in order to create this aircraft. We need funding for the following:

  • Mechanical Components for Airframe

  • Electrical PCB and PCB Components

  • Firmware Components & CPU Processors

  • CV System Components

  • Training Drone

All of these things require money for the prototyping stage as well as for the manufacturing and designing stages. WEEF's sponsorship will allow us to continue through these processes and in addition supplement student learning. With your support, we can achieve the goals that we set out for this year that are all in lead up to the 2022 Unmanned Systems Canada Student Competition.

 

Benefits

In WARG our main priority is student learning. Two of our current projects include Project VANGUARD and ZeroPilot. Project VANGUARD is the current quadcopter that students are currently constructing. They get to be involved in making the prototypes, designing, testing as well as coding aspect for this. ZeroPilot is our own custom-built autopilot system. This is a great experience for students as this helps them learn about how to set up a first-person autopilot system which is very unique. Whether we fail or succeed we make sure our students learn lifelong skills and be able to take something away from this club that can be applicable to the future.

Since the University is opening again there are more opportunities for students to work and learn about things hands-on. With WEEF being a big financial contributor to WARG we are very grateful for the support that they have continued to give us every year.

WEEF has continued to be a big help to WARG and we respect them fully for continuing to help us in times of need. The money that it provides comes from students and they help students by providing this money. This money allows us to pursue opportunities and learn things that would not be possible. Like last year and as we continue to do so, if WEEF decides to sponsor WARG, WEEF will continue to keep their "High Flyer" bracket status. We will continue to promote WEEF through our logos, apparel, social media and more. We believe promoting WEEF is important because of how they continue to help us. By helping us as a "High Flyer" sponsor a large WEEF logo will be added to our aircraft. The same will be done for our apparel and team website.

 

Estimated Equipment Lifetime

The estimated equipment lifetime for all of the requested equipment is 3-4 years.

Implementation Schedule

Our plan after getting the equipment is to use them to prepare for the 2022 USC student competition. We expect to pro