Team MOMO – Autonomous Glider Payload Delivery
Team MOMO is a Saint Louis University team competing in the AUVSI SUAS 2023 competition and is designing and building an autonomous drop vehicle to complete the airdrop task of the competition. The competition is split into four sections: autonomous waypoint navigation, obstacle avoidance, object detection & localization, and finally air delivery. Team MOMO will focus on the air delivery section. The team is tasked with delivering a water bottle from our autonomous UAS to localized ground targets.
Team MOMO chose to design and build a glider to deliver the water bottle. Our design method consists of iteration and flight testing. We currently have built three designs which had issues with the gliders CG location, structural strength, and wiring. Each iteration has improved on the past design.
Some challenges faced include how to attach the glider to the UAS and how to safely descend. To solve these issues, the glider will be towed behind the UAS. Once dropped, the glider will perform a stall maneuver to reduce speed. After this the glider will autonomously enter a prescribed flight path and fly to the identified ground target.
Marcus Klupar
Marcus Klupar is from Skagway, Alaska, majoring in Aerospace Engineering. Here at SLU he is a member of the Men's Club Basketball Team and the AirCRAFT Lab. His postgraduate plan is to get a masters in engineering at SLU.
Fauzan Hasanbasri
Fauzan H. Hasanbasri is a senior at Saint Louis University, majoring in Aerospace Engineering. He has been working at the AirCRAFT lab for the last two years, focusing on the AUVSI SUAS competition. To accomplish one of the missions of AUVSI SUAS 2023, he designed and built a glider. He leads the avionics and navigation aspect of the glider design.
Michael He
Mike is an Aerospace Engineering major who enjoys pickleball.
Francisco Bueno Rojas
Francisco Bueno is a senior in Aerospace Engineering. He is the team captain of the club SUAS AUVSI SLU for the past two years and he is a research assistant at the AirCRAFT Lab. He is also a published author in the ASEE aerospace division conference.