2017
The ARLISS event is an opportunity for universities around the world to participate in several different competitions. At the 2017 ARLISS, Windward Community College (WinCC) and Honolulu Community College (HonCC) participated in the Fly Back competition.
The WinCC team completed in ARLISS 2017 at Black Rock, Nevada with its drone fly-back entry. One of the students earned a Level 1 rocketry certification and the other a Level 2 certification. This was WCC’s twelfth year of continuous participation at this international rocketry competition.
For the Fly Back Competition student teams construct a payload that deploys from a rocket. The rocket is launched to an altitude of 12,000 feet above ground level at which point, the drone deploys. A secondary payload on the drone, called the ASEP, is to collect atmospheric data while in the air. For the 2017 ARLISS, WinCC and HonCC chose to construct a quadcopter as the drone. As per ARLISS requirements, the quadcopter is required to autonomously navigate to a specified GPS location. The WinCC team was responsible for constructing the quadcopter and HonCC built the payload.
last updated 8-22-2022