Mizzou Unmanned Systems Team IIF Final Report

Abstract

Over the past year and a half, the Mizzou Unmanned Systems Team (MUST) has empowered dozens of Mizzou students to take their interest in unmanned systems and transform it into a passion. While we have witnessed a drastic decrease in the cost of obtaining such systems, even in the relatively short period of time the Team has been established, the initial cost of building and utilizing an unmanned system (suitable for academic purposes) is still in the area of $500-$1,000. The majority of college students cannot devote that much of their income to what is essentially a hobby (since commercial use is still illegal in most cases), but MUST allows those students to plan, build, configure, test, and operate these systems at no cost to the student.