Project Vyoma is a team of engineering students from RV College of Engineering, Bangalore, India who develop unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This newsletter provides updates on their projects. Their first autonomous plane, Buraq 3.0, recently completed its maiden flight and has autonomous capabilities like return to launch and waypoint navigation. They are also developing VICon, a system for intuitive UAV control using hand gestures. Project Vyoma plans to compete in the 2015 Design/Build/Fly competition in the US and the SparkFun Autonomous Vehicle Challenge, which would be their first international competitions. In their free time, the team enjoys recreational activities like kite making, parachute experiments, and celebrating festivals.

1. VYOMA NEWSLETTER Issue 1
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“For once you have tasted flight you will walk
the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for
there you have been and there you will long
to return”
- Leonardo da Vinci
Greetings from all of us at Project Vyoma!
We are a team of engineering undergrads
from RV College of Engineering, Bangalore
passionate about research and development
of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Since
its inception in 2007, Project Vyoma in
association with various corporate
organizations has participated in Aero-
design competitions across the globe and in
various Aero-Expos in India, garnering a good
amount of media attention.
BURAQ 3.0
The first autonomous plane of Vyoma. The
flying mammoth. Look inside for more
information.
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VICon
The Spatial Hand Remote lets users fly a remote
control airplane intuitively. V.I.Con ( Vyoma
Intuitive Controller ).
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2. VYOMA NEWSLETTER | Issue 1 2
The first autonomous plane of Vyoma
completed its maiden flight.
Salient features of Buraq:
1. Completely made out of balsa wood.
2. Dihedral wing, high payload capacity. 3. Weighs just 2kgs, ready for all
autonomous capabilities.
AUTONOMOUS CAPABILITIES:
1. Return To Launch
2. Way point navigation
3. Auto Stabilize
Drones are the future. They’ll pervade everyday lives in the future. However, control with an
RC is complicated even for experienced pilots because of lack of intuition. Clunky tech = bad
Consumer products
Vyoma looks to provide the solution to this problem. When things are intuitive, they hardly take
time to be learnt. VICon aims to make UAV control more intuitive.
We are currently working on the prototype for intuitive control of UAVs which translates
movement of Human hands about the coordinate axis to movement of aerial vehicle along its
coordinate axes.
Future scope
 Product based development of VICon into a single wearable glove.
 Gesture Based Control of UAVs and their Mechanisms
BURAQ 3.0
VICon (Human-UAV interface)

3. VYOMA NEWSLETTER | Issue 1 3
DBF
The AIAA through the Applied Aerodynamics, Aircraft
Design, Design Engineering and Flight Test Technical
Committees and the AIAA Foundation invites all
university students to participate in the
Cessna/Raytheon Missile Systems Student
Design/Build/Fly competition
PROJECT COMPLETION :
20%
.
Spark fun AVC
The Sparkfun Autonomous Vehicle Challenge demands
the multirotor to traverse a predefined path and
simultaneously do real time image processing.
PROJECT COMPLETION :
15%
Testing our mettle
 Project Vyoma will be the first team from South India to compete.
 The 19th Annual Event of the prestigious “Design/Build/Fly”
 Sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, held at
Tucson, Arizona, USA.
 Teams from over 25 countries.
 One of the most challenging Student Competitions in the world.
 The event will be held in April 2015.
 www.aiaa.dbf.org
 Project Vyoma will be the 1st Indian team to compete.
 7th Edition of “SparkFun AVC 2015”, an Autonomous Vehicle Challenge, held at
Colorado, USA.
 Attracts teams from all over the world.
 Event -June 2015.
 https://avc.sparkfun.com/

4. VYOMA NEWSLETTER | Issue 1 4
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
We at Vyoma indulge ourselves in fun and
recreational activities from time to time.
We explore our sportive side by playing
cricket or football in our free time.
Taking interest in various skill enhancing
activities like kite making, RC boat making
etc is the norm at Vyoma.
KITE MAKING
One of the best ways to relax and have fun.
All team members competed among
themselves in kite making competition.
We had over 5 different kite designs flying in
the air.
PARACHUTE DEPLOYMENT
They say the higher they go the harder they
fall. Well not in our case.
Vyoma’s indigenously designed parachute
deployment system makes sure that the
chances of payload getting damaged gets
harder.
THAT’S ALL FOLKS.
More updates in the
next edition.
REACHING OUT TO THE GODS
We extended our joy of festivities from our
homes to our workshop.
On the occasion of Dasara festival, we
performed Aayudha Pooja to all our tools
and instruments in the workshop.
We invited the faculty of our college to grace
the workshop on this special occasion.
Visit our website:
www.teamvyoma.com
ALL WORK, ALL PLAY