Poachers and Rhinos Shall Not Meet.

Lost Hikers Shall meet Rescue team.

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AREND

D e s i g n , b u i l d , a n d t e s t a n

u n m a n n e d s e n s o r a i rc ra f t

s o l u t i o n t o d e t e c t a n d

d i s t i n g u i s h h u m a n s a n d

l a r g e a n i m a l s i n h a rs h

e nv i ro n m e n t s

AREND AREND Sensor UAS

Wildlife conservation needs support to protect

rhinos, elephants, and other endangered spe-

cies from cruel poaching. Mountain rescue

operations are expensive and often dangerous

for the rescuers’ life.

AREND is a sensor aircraft for aerial surveil-

lance specialized in detecting people, large

animals, specific shapes such as e.g. a crashed

aircraft. AREND aircraft is an unmanned aerial

system (UAS) designed bottom up to hold

select sensors in modular arrangements; in

stark contrast to a UAV with attached sensor.

This translates to higher quality resource man-

agement, higher efficacy, capability and versa-

tility, and lower operating cost.

University of Colorado Boulder

Dept. Aerospace Engineering Sciences

Boulder, Colorado 80309-0429

http://facebook.com/teamAREND

Project Manager: Laura.Kruger@colorado.edu

Faculty Advisor: jean.koster@colorado.edu

“Aircraft for Rhino and ENvironmental De-fense.” (Arend is Africaans for Eagle)

An international student team is collabo-

rating to compete in the Wildlife Conser-

vation UAV Challenge to design, build &

fly an unmanned aerial system (UAS) in

support of anti-poaching operations in

South Africa. This student team is led by

the University of Colorado at Boulder, and

includes teams from Helsinki Metropolia

University of Applied Sciences, Finland,

the University of Pretoria, South Africa,

and the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Also collaborating with and supporting /

sponsoring this student team is Helios

Torque Fusion, Inc., NIST - the National

Institute for Standards and Technology,

First RF Corp.

of Boulder,

Colorado, Blue

Atmos, LLC of

Denver, Colo-

rado, Four

Winds Interac-

tive Inc. of Denver, Colorado, Skysentry

Inc. of Colorado Springs, Lockheed Mar-

tin Corp. of Denver, the Arvada Modelers

club and many technology experts from

the region.

The sensors to find rhinos or poachers can

also be used cost efficiently to find people

and aircraft lost in the wilderness.

Team AREND

T o p L e v e l R e q u i r e m e n t s * T h e A R E N D a i r c r a f t s y s t e m s h a l l b e c a -

p a b l e o f m a n u a l / r a d i o f l i g h t c o n t r o l w i t h

a u t o n o m o u s c a p a b i l i t i e s .

* T h e A R E N D a i r c r a f t s y s t e m s h a l l b e c a -

p a b l e o f q u i c k l y d e l i v e r i n g a p a y l o a d t o

a n y l o c a t i o n w i t h i n i t s s e c t o r , s i l e n t l y

p e r f o r m i n g a s e a r c h p a t t e r n , r e t u r n i n g t o

a l a n d i n g a r e a , a n d l a n d i n g s a f e l y w i t h i n

t h e S o u t h A f r i c a n P a r k o r R e s e r v e .

* T h e A R E N D a i r c r a f t s t r u c t u r e s h a l l b e

c a p a b l e o f s u p p o r t i n g p a y l o a d s e n s o r

p a c k a g e s w i t h i n a f i x e d m a s s a n d v o l u m e .

T h e a l l o t t e d s t r u c t u r e a n d v o l u m e s h a l l

b e d e s i g n e d t o a c c e p t a v a r i e t y o f p a y -

l o a d m o d u l e s , a n d p a r t i c u l a r l y s i z e d t o

s u p p o r t t h e l a r g e s t e x p e c t e d p a y l o a d .

* T h e A R E N D p a y l o a d s h a l l i n c l u d e a g i m -

b a l - s t a b i l i z e d v i s u a l c a m e r a s y s t e m , c a -

p a b l e o f c a p t u r i n g q u a l i t y i m a g e d a t a

t h r o u g h o u t t h e s e a r c h p a t t e r n o f t h e

f l i g h t m i s s i o n .

* T h e A R E N D p r o j e c t s h a l l i n c l u d e a

g r o u n d s e n s o r n e t w o r k c a p a b l e o f g a t h -

e r i n g d a t a r e l e v a n t t o t h e a n t i - p o a c h i n g

e f f o r t a n d r e m o t e l y t r a n s m i t t i n g d a t a t o

o t h e r g r o u n d s y s t e m s , a i r s y s t e m s , a n d a

c o m m a n d c e n t e r .

AREND

University of Colorado Boulder

Dept. Aerospace Engineering Sciences

Boulder, Colorado 80309-0429

http://facebook.com/teamAREND

Phone: 555-555-5555

Fax: 555-555-5555

E-mail: someone@example.com

Poaching Facts

The statistics of poaching show an increasing

number of rhino poaching events demonstrating

the exponential growth of the poaching. With

1004 rhinos killed in 2013 and a population of

about 20,000, the current concern is that the

poaching kills are exceeding the birth rate of

rhinos; which is an indisputable warning sign

that the extinction of rhinos is becoming a real

concern.

Rhinos are poached for their keratin horns which

are believed to have medicinal value in Chinese

medicine. Elephants are poached for their ivory

tusks.

Proceeds from poaching finance Al-Qaeda ter-

rorism and criminal syndicates.

Rescue Facts

Mountain rescue of “over due” hikers triggers inten-

sive search campaigns. Many volunteers and profes-

sionals put in hours of work finding people. Helicop-

ters are often used for may hours to locate people.

Rescue missions are also called off when weather

conditions may put rescuers in danger. These times

are counter the needs of the persons to be rescued.

The operations are commonly very expensive and

take a bite out of the tax payers’ dollars that could be

used alternatively for the

ben-

efit