Deep Vision Supports CANSAT McGill - Team Seeks Additional Sponsors and Technical Support
CANSAT McGill is McGill University's answer to the yearly CanSat Competition hosted by the American Astronautical Society and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Every year, dozens of teams from universities around the world compete in a design-build-launch mission intended to advance knowledge and education of space-related topics. The challenge this year is to simulate a planetary atmospheric entry vehicle. Teams will build a vehicle to autonomously land a fragile payload using passive, staged descent control all while completing a secondary objective and relaying telemetry data to a ground station. CANSAT McGill has chosen a very ambitious secondary objective; the vehicle will video record the staged descent, to be downloaded upon recovery. The 2012 event takes place June 8th - 10th in Cross Plains, Texas, USA.
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The Mission
The mission is to launch an autonomous cansat with a deployable lander containing one large raw hen's egg. The cansat consists of two parts, the carrier and the lander. The carrier holds and releases the lander. The cansat will be deployed from a rocket at an altitude of about 610 meters. Once released from the rocket, the cansat shall descend between 10 and 20 meters per second using any type of descent control system or device. At an altitude of 200 meters, cansat shall reduce the descent rate to within 4 and 6 meters per second. At 91 meters altitude, the cansat carrier shall release the lander that contains one large raw hen's egg. The lander shall land without damaging the egg. The lander cannot free fall. It must contain a descent control system or device to reduce the descent rate to less than 10 meters per second. The carrier telemetry data may be stored on-board for post processing in the event of a communications failure. Teams must build their own ground station. Telemetry from the carrier shall be displayed, in real-time, on a team-developed ground control station. About CANSAT McGill CANSAT McGill is an interdisciplinary team of six final-year undergraduate engineering students from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. They are advised by Prof. James Richard Forbes of the McGill Department of Mechanical Engineering. This is their first year participating in the competition and are eager to take the competition to a new level of design excellence. They need partners, both technical and financial, to complete their mission. To contact them, please write cansat@mcgilleus.ca or visit the team website. To learn more about the competition, please visit the competition website. About Deep Vision Deep Vision develops intelligent, real-time, sensor exploitation and machine perception solutions for the Aerospace & Defence industry. Deep Vision provides world class capabilities in autonomous systems, robotics, surveillance, tracking, targeting, and C4ISTAR. |
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