Program Overview
mach33.aero UAV Grand Challenge Program is structured for innovators who want to build scaled enterprises and ventures by lab to market translation of technologies to include experiential, immersive, and instructional components that mimic the lifecycle of an enterprise. The program is designed to accelerate the start-up’s Lab to market journey through a series of support infrastructure provided under mach33.aero umbrella. Working closely with our technical partners, including CSIR NAL scientists and subject matter experts, mach33.aero will support startups solving a curated list of problem statements and use cases for multi sector applications.
These technologies have far ranging use cases built into various sectors like agriculture, climate change, disaster management, natural resources management etc. These systems have use cases in
Increasing affordability and accessibility of drone as a service for agricultural applications
Fast transfer of perishable and critical goods
Monitoring coastal vulnerability using UAV spatial data
Marine trash detection using UAV systems
Crop quality / morphophysiological monitoring
Forest tree cover monitoring/ surveying
Wildlife population monitoring and controls
And many others
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - FOCUS AREAS
Startups/entrepreneurs/innovators innovating for
Automation of UAV’s
Energy storage and management for UAV’s / alternate energy systems for UAV’s
High payload carrying capacity UAV’s
Long endurance UAV’s
Multi UAV systems intelligence and applications including
Precision enabled motion capture technologies for multi-UAV environments
multirobot collaboration, multi-agent systems, miniaturisation, multi drone trajectory planning
UAV based data collection, processing and applications
WHO CAN APPLY
Start-ups with science and technology based innovative solutions that have the potential to innovate and scale around UAV based systems and technologies. Innovators looking for support primarily in product development, product commercialization and Go-To-Market Strategy.
Program Schedule
11th March 2022
Application Open
30th April 2022
Application Close
15th June 2022
Evaluation End Date
July 2022