ISGC Student Hands-On Spotlight: OpenUAS (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) at Iowa State University
The OpenUAS project is a multidisciplinary undergraduate research team that is aimed at developing an open-source fixed wing aircraft under the supervision of Dr. Kristin Yvonne-Rozier in the Laboratory for Temporal Logic. The goal is to give research teams, undergraduate/high school teams, and otherwise interested groups of people access to plans for a cheap, easy-to-manufacture, configurable fixed wing UAS to serve as an educational or test platform.
These plans will include a variety of resources, including 3D models and schematics, instructions on how to manufacture and customize the airframe, a guide to choose and integrate electronic components (such as a motor or flight computer), and how to use and extend the software capabilities of selected platforms. The project seeks to provide a comprehensive experience for building a customizable fixed wing aircraft, like many similar resources already developed for quadcopters.