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1-General NUDC aims to promote following engineering fields in the emerging field of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: 1) New aircraft configurations 2) New Materials 3) New Manufacturing technologies 4) Small Engines 5) Control Systems 6) Navigation
1-1 Team Arrangements NUDC is basically a team design competition and following rules apply to each participating team: 1) Team members: 4 to 8 2) Teams cannot share their members 3) Members cannot change their team during a period of competition 4) Each team must have a Nick Name during competition 5) A minimum of 2 members must be a currently enrolled students either in undergraduate or graduate 6) Each team can have up to three sponsors during a period of competition
1-2 Acceptable Procedures All team are expected to use well founded theoretical and experimental procedures in the full course of competition. This might be done by introducing a table containing all design parameters. A design parameter is the one that is directly calculated based on an acceptable scientific procedure. Contesters could direct their questions to the following e-mail:
1-3 Engineering Ethics All teams are expected to follow well known engineering ethical rules, to create a pleasant environment for all teams involved, this includes: 1) Proper Bibliography and citation 2) Proper documentation 3) Proper advertisement 4) Observing team integrity
1-4 Rights Rights to the final design are equally shared by team members and their sponsors (if any). Those participants that use organizers facilities and financing would consider organizers as their sponsors and so share the right to the final design.
1-5 Documentations All participating teams are urged to document their design process using media available.
1-6 Advertisement All participating teams are entitled to have up to three sponsors for their activities related to the NUDC and can therefore advertise for their sponsors thru facilities provided by the organizers.
1-7 Withdrawal Any participating team who wishes to withdraw from the competition is expected to inform the organizers two weeks before the official withdrawal is approved. In case reason for withdrawal is not justified by the organizers committee, the withdrawing team would be barred for the next year competition.
2- Rules of Phase I : Conceptual Design Duration: 70 days Software : Solid-Works or CATIA
2-1 Documents of Phase I A report of maximum 100 pages with the following chapters: · Chap (1): A data base of not more than 10 aircraft comparable to the existing design : 15 pages · Chap (2): Data base analysis; describing the significance of existing aircraft in the data base: 5 Pages · Chap (3): Definition of aircraft mission and mission profiles: 10 pages. · Chap (4): Weight estimation and sensitivities: 10 Pages · Chap (5): Wing area and power estimation: 15 Pages · Chap (6): Design parameters and their estimations: 20 Pages · Chap (7): Design innovations (7-1) Materials (7-2) Manufacturing technology (7-3) Manufacturing skill (7-4) Manufacturing cost (7-5) Packaging and handling (7-6) Pre-flight preparations (7-7) Safety features (7-8) Training (7-9) Future versions (7-10) Emergencies
2-2 Credits of Phase I All chapters based on their qualities receive a credit from a group of experts; that forms the final grade of the design
3- Rules of Phase II : Non-flying Prototype Regardless of the grades received in phase I; each team is entitled to continue to the phase II of building a non-flying prototype. Duration of this phase is 90 days and concentrates on the quality and skill of teams in fabricating a mock-up. Those teams who ranked one to three in the first phase are entitled to receive some help from organizers to advance their design.
3-1 Documents of Phase II 1) A non-flying mock-up with suitable scale with landing gear and control surfaces 2) A report with maximum pages of 20 describing the features of the mock-up 3) Three dimensional drawings of the mock-up 4) Description of fabrication process 5) Assembly sequence of mock-up
3-2 Credits of Phase II Credits are given based on the following items: 1) Precision of the mock-up 2) General dimensioning and tolerances in the 3/D drawings 3) Tools and their relevance 4) All new or off-the-shelves components
4- Rules of Phase III : Flying Prototype Regardless of the grades received in phase II; each team is entitled to continue to the phase III of building a flying prototype. Duration of this phase is 120 days and concentrates on the performance of the built prototype. Those teams who ranked one to three in the second phase are entitled to receive some help from organizers to advance their design to the flying stage.
4-1 Documents of Phase III A full flying prototype with a brief flight manual is expected for this phase.
4-2 Credits of Phase III Credits are given based on the following tests to each participant: 1) Stall Speed 2) Take-off capabilities; including take-off run 3) Hand-launch capability 4) Take-off on rubber-band launcher 5) Landing right after take-off 6) Aborted Take-off 7) Maximum speed for a round-trip at 1000 ft AGL with the destination at 4000 meters from initial point 8) Maximum Block speed for A to B to A; where B is at 4000 meters 9) Maximum turn speed 10)Minimum turn radius 11) Maximum endurance while flying in sight 12) Take-off in a cross-wind of 10 km/h 13) Landing in a cross-wind of 10 km/h 14) Maximum endurance out off pilot sight with a data link 15) Following at least 5 waypoints in a round trip |