Teams Confirmed for UAS Challenge 2024

The UAS Challenge warmly welcomes new and returning teams to take part in the 10th Anniversary competition.

The annual UAS Challenge continues to tasking teams of university students to design, develop and fly their own Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) from scratch. Teams submit reports throughout the year, detailing and justifying their engineering decisions across design, manufacturing, safety and much more.

The competition remains as close to a real-world engineering project as possible, with students developing their engineering knowledge and practical skills when creating their aircraft. In line with the Institution’s aims of supporting the next generation of engineering talent, those who participate leave university with a wealth of experience and soft skills gained outside of a classroom and go on to become highly capable graduate engineers in industry.

The final part of the challenge comes with the fly off event in July, where students demonstrate the capabilities of their UAS at the BMFA Buckminster site and present their work to judging panels of senior engineers in industry.

Teams participating include:

• Beihang University - Beihang Aeromodelling Team - China
• Coventry University - Phoenix - UK
• Estonian Aviation Academy, Blue Sparrow - Estonia
• Dundee University - Haggis Aerospace - UK
• De Montfort University - DMU Merlin - UK
• Imperial College London - ICAV, UK
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay - Team Rakshak - India
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay - Team Exofly - India
• Istanbul Technical University - ITU SKY UAV - Turkey
• Istanbul Technical University - ITU Albatros UAV Team - Turkey
• King Abdulaziz University - AERO DRAG - Saudi Arabia
• King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals - UAS2030 - Saudi Arabia
• Loughborough University - Loughborough UAV - UK
• Manipal Institute of Technology - Project DronAid - India
• Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) - HORUS UPV - Spain
• Queens University Belfast - BOOMERANG - UK
• Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies - Caelus - Italy
• Sheffield Hallam University - UAV_LAB@SHU - UK
• Technische Universiteit Eindhoven - AERO TEAM EINDHOVEN - The Netherlands
• University of Sheffield - Project Falcon - UK
• University of Sheffield - Project Kestrel - UK
• University of Bristol - BUDS - UK
• Universidad Rey Juan Carlos - Aerocosmos Voyager - Spain
• University College London - UAS Team Nova 1 - UK
• University College London - UAS Team Nova 2 - UK
• University of Aberdeen - Team Rocky - UK
• University of Aviero - AutoMec UAV - Portugal
• University of Bath - Team Bath Drones - UK
• University of Surrey - Swifts - UK
• University of West England - UWE Aerosoc - UK
• University of Twente - DroneTeam Twente - The Netherlands
• University of Wolverhampton - UWA - UK
• Heriot-Watt University - Aero-Watt - UK
• BRAC University - BRACU RaptorX - Bangladesh
  • Swansea University - Swansea UAS team - UK
• University of Nottingham - AeroNottical - UK
• University of Salford - Salford - UK
• Cranfield University - Cranfield UIAS

The 2024 UAS Challenge is sponsored by Leonardo, QinetiQ, Ansys, Maxon, Spirit Aerosystems and Callen-Lenz.

On behalf of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the UAS Challenge organising committee, we wish all teams the very best of luck with their entries this year and look forward to checking out progress on their UAS later this year.