The annual Student Unmanned Aerial System (SUAS) Competition is hosted by the Seafarer Chapter of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI). This competition serves to stimulate and foster student interest in UAS and is designed to provide an ideal opportunity for students to gain valuable complementary, multi-disciplinary and systems engineering knowledge. The focus of this competition is to engage students in systems engineering and creating a total solution to complex, potentially real world problems. In order to address this, the student teams would have to design, develop, and fabricate an unmanned aerial system capable of completing specific autonomous operations, including takeoff, navigation, Sense, Detect and Avoid, among others, subject to several constraints on time and other mission parameters as well as analyze and validate its performance through flight test demonstration.
2014-15 Team - Rogue Squadron
2015-16 Team - Rogue Squadron
2016-17 Team - SLUviators
2017-18 Team - SLUAV