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Artemis

Artemis is the largest, most innovative, and most ambitious airframe in CUAir history. With its fully composite aircraft design

com·pos·ite air·craft de·sign noun

The material used to build the airframe is the combination of different materials that, when bonded, will produce new characteristics

, modular distributed imaging system
mod·u·lar dis·trib·ut·ed im·ag·ing sys·tem noun

The image pipeline to send images from the plane camera to the ground server for target tagging

, and intuitively-tailored autopilot
au·to·pi·lot noun

The autopilot allows our plane to fly by itself. Our autopilot subteam tunes its parameters for efficient and accurate flight.

, the 2023 Artemis system surpasses its predecessors in flight performance and precision. Between 2022 and 2023, Artemis was refined and redeveloped to improve performance and adapt to new mission requirements.

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Artemis V1

  • 2022
  • 8
  • 8
  • 10
  • 34

Artemis V1 is CUAir's first dive into VTOL (Vertical Takeoff and Landing) aircraft. It features four vertical propellors and one pusher propellor, a custom two-axis gimbal, and a carbon-fiber composite airframe. The custom imaging system, finetuned autopilot, and machine-learning-based image classification algorithms exceed the capabilities of previous years.

~3.7 m
25 m/s
22 kg

Orion v1-3

  • 2019
  • 7
  • 10
  • 1
  • 10

Orion v1 was developed for the 2019 competition, and was the most ambitious and innovative of CUAir's systems to date. Through 2020 and 2021, CUAir iterated on Orion to improve critical areas and finetune the system to AUVSI-SUAS mission goals, but competition was cancelled both years due to COVID-19.

3 m
18.4 m/s
16 kg

Theia II

  • 2018
  • 4
  • 4
  • 1
  • 1

Theia II is a fine-tuned upgrade of our previous system, Theia I. Theia II consists of a custom airframe with modular parts, a robust power system, a well-tuned autopilot, a fully modular distributed imagery system, and a custom ground control station.

~2.9 m
14 m/s
11.3 kg

Theia I

  • 2017
  • 2
  • 2
  • 2
  • 1

The Theia system was designed to maximize performance on mission objectives by achieving the actions required for successful mission, equipped with the 3DRobotics Pixhawk autopilot, the Z CAM E1 camera, and a Ubiquiti Rocket-AC pair and RFD900+ radio pair.

~2.9 m
14 m/s
11 kg

Theseus

  • 2016
  • 2
  • 2
  • 2
  • 12

Theseus features a wooden skin on the wing and tail, which when paired with fiberglass, creates an extremely light and strong design.

~2.7 m
10 m/s
10.4 kg

EOS

  • 2015
  • 30
  • 8
  • 28

Eos's design features a significant drop in weight and new elements of flight, such as catapult launching and controlled belly landing. Like its predecessors, Eos's body is fully composite.

~2.7 m
16 m/s
8.3 kg

Helios

  • 2014
  • 2
  • 1
  • 8
  • 4

Helios uses the same proven aircraft configuration as Hyperion, but features serveral major improvements that make it a more efficient and user friendly vehicle. Helios is almost entirely composed of high-strength composite materials such as carbon fiber and fiberglass.

~2.7 m
16.5 m/s
13.6 kg

Hyperion

  • 2013
  • 1
  • 1
  • 18
  • 1

The majority of Hyperion's airframe is constructed of high-strength epoxy-based composite materials including fiberglass, carbon fiber, and kevlar. These materials are very high strength-to-weight ratios, allowing the aiframe to be both durable and lightweight.

~2.8 m
16.5 m/s
19 kg

Aeolus II

  • 2012
  • 2
  • 1

The airframe of Aeolus II is an iteration on Aeolus I's, equipped with a gimbal-mounted Canon Rebel XS Digital SLR camera and a fit-PC2 onboard computer.

~2.4 m
18 m/s
10.4 kg

Aeolus I

  • 2011

The Aeolus I airframe itself is an off-the-shelf Senior Telemaster kit, which has been reinforced for better flight integrity and modified for carrying a payload, and carries a Canon PowerShot SX110 IS camera used for gathering imagery up to 9 megapixels and a fit-PC2 onboard computer.

~2.4 m
21.1 m/s
9.5 kg