The AerotriX Super Challenge - 2013

The super challenge has been completed. Please find the details of the winners below

Winnners:

Champions: Shiv Nadar University
Team Members: G.Sai Charan, Aditi Seth, Shivanshu Khillan, Siddharth Sharma, Harikrishnan B
2nd Prize: KIIT University, Bhubaneswar
Team Members: Suman Das, Sanket Chourasia, Abhinav Mishra, Anshul Karn, Kshitij Verma
3rd Prize: B.V.B.C.E.T, Hubli
Team Members: Vittal S. Prabhu, Akshay Raina, Nahush Kumar, Anant Kumar, Anirudh Khanna

Please click here to see the list of finalists for the event.

Problem Statement for Final:

Venue: IIST Trivandrum
Date: 23 Mar 2013
Eligibility: For all shortlisted students at regional venues

The final will happen in three rounds.

Round 1: Open Book Quiz

The participants will have to take a written test on the concepts relevant to the RC Aircraft Workshop. This is to test your level of understanding of the concepts about the RC Aircraft. It is an Open Book Exam - You can bring any material/ book/ papers etc. to the exam.

Round 2: Demonstration of the Final Model as per the Super Challenge Problem Statement given below

Problem Statement: Modify the aircraft that you built in the regional workshop/ Build a new aircraft for agricultural purposes. 

Design, implement and demonstrate a mechanism for increasing the efficiency or the ease or introduce a new practise in agriculture using RC Aircraft. The mechanism developed has to be

• Feasible
• Economic
• Suitable to the Indian context

This will be a ground demonstration of the mechanism you developed to convert your plane into a useful agricultural machine. You are not required to fly the plane. You are only required to demo your product and present it to convince the judges that your plane, if manufactured as per your design, would fly and would be useful for agricultural procedures.

Example: You may come up with an objective to use your aircraft for spraying pesticides. Your objective for the competition is to get as close as possible to develop and demonstrate a plane for this purpose. You may:

1) Just come up with mechanism to spray pesticides, add it to the plane you made in the workshop and suggest a list of other changes that are needed to be done to the plane's design to make it fly.
2) Complete the design changes too in addition to adding the mechanism to spray pesticides.
3) Just get all of this in theory without actually doing any changes to your plane!

Round 3: Submission of a report including the following:

1) What other design modifications should be done to the aircraft you designed in the workshop?
2) Calculations to prove point 1
3) How will this plane be useful for agriculture? What will be the impact? 

Background of the problem statement: India has always been an agriculture-based country. Even today, 1/6^th of the country’s GDP is generated from agriculture and nearly half of the workforce of India is directly dependent on this sector. Though there has been advancement in the application of technology in farming, there is still much left to be desired. As the stakeholders in the future of this ever-growing nation, as engineers, it is your responsibility and, more importantly, an opportunity to better the application of the latest technology in the “field” of farming. We challenge you to use MAV technology for the betterment of the farming sector.

Registration: Download the confirmation forms from here info@aerotrix.com

Rules: 

• The team should comprise of the same members who have taken part in the regional level workshop
• The winners will be decided based on the collective performance in all the three rounds

• All the team members have to take the Open Book Quiz individually and the average score of the team will be considered

• The following items will be provided to the teams during ground demonstration
  1. Transmitter
  2. Receiver
  3. Battery
• The soft copy of the report has to be submitted by 20^th of March 2013
• Each team will be given a maximum of 10 minutes (7 min presentation + 3 min Q&A) to present their idea.
• The final decision of the results shall lie with AerotriX
• AerotriX has the right to dismiss any team from the competition at any point
• Any misbehaviour or discrepancies during the competitions shall not be tolerated and the participants will be asked to leave
• All the rules and the code of conduct of Conscientia are applicable to the finalists.