23 April, 2019: Airbus experts have picked seven teams for the 2019 final of Fly Your Ideas which invites students from around the globe to innovate in key areas for the industry like Electrification, Cyber Security, Data Services, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Reality. The finalist teams were chosen after a three-month development phase working with the support from Airbus mentors.
Fly Your Ideas gives the students a chance to develop unique or radical ideas for tomorrow's aerospace industry. The concepts that are chosen represent a range of trendsetting topics such as a 'Smart Wheelchair' for air travel or a 'Solar Windmill'.
The finalist team members are from 11 countries (Argentina, Greece, Germany, India, Italy, Indonesia, Japan, Moldavia, Norway, Netherlands, United Kingdom), 8 different universities and were chosen from more than 270 entries worldwide. They come from academic backgrounds like Engineering, Information Technology, Natural Sciences and Finance.
The teams will travel to Toulouse, France in June to work in Airbus' innovation and R&D facilities to further develop, prototype or visualise their ideas using state-of-the-art equipment with support from Airbus.
The students will present their projects on 27th June in front of Airbus experts and personalities from the aerospace and academic world, live-streamed in parallel to a global audience.
The students are competing for a share of the 45,000 euro prize fund and the chance to further advance their idea in the aerospace industry, are clearly driven by the digital nature of this year's challenge, and the chance to change the world with their ideas.
The seven finalist teams are:
Airbus Integrated Fisheries Information Services (Data Services Challenge) - Team AirFish, University of Cambridge, UK
Automated Intelligent Real-Time Quality Inspection Exploiting Human-Robot-Collaboration (Artificial Intelligence Challenge) - Team AIQinspect, Saarland University, Germany
Batteryless Wireless Switches for Airplanes (Internet of Things Challenge) - Team "Zero" Heroes, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Motor Intra-body Cooling System - MICS (Electrification Challenge) - Team Osprey, University of Strathclyde, UK
The Solar Windmill (Electrification Challenge) - Team Seren, University of Cambridge, UK
Swan - Smart Wheelchair for Air travel Needs (Internet of Things Challenge) - Team Move-ez, Technical University of Milan, Italy
V.A.C.A. - Earth-observation-data based Application for stockbreeding Administration (Data Services Challenge) - Team V.A.C.A, National University of La Plata, Argentina