The aviation and space industry is the most high-tech industry on our planet. A huge number of modern inventions and technologies used in materials science, radio electronics and radar, mechanical engineering and instrumentation, computer technology and programming, and specialized control systems were created within the walls of aviation design bureaus and enterprises.

The Aerospace Technologies program includes:

• learning about the history of aviation and space exploration;
• analysis of the main aerodynamic layouts of modern aircraft;
• study and analysis of the main advanced technologies used in the creation of manned and unmanned aircraft and helicopters, as well as spacecraft;
• training in manual UAV control using a ground control station and an aircraft simulator; piloting quadcopters and aircraft models;
• development of UAV projects based on specific technical specifications;
• development, design, and manufacturing of UAV structural elements;
• development of spacecraft projects used for exploring outer space, planets, and satellites of the Solar System;
• development of innovative aircraft projects.

Curators of the program:

Yakovlev Dmitry Stanislavovich – Head of the Laboratory «Aerospace Technologies» of the National Children’s Technopark Educational Institution, Master of Sports of the Republic of Belarus in Aeromodelling, National Category Sports Judge;

Dyakov Dmitry Aleksandrovich – Head of the Department of Unmanned Aerial Systems and Combat Management of the Educational Institution «Belarusian State Academy of Aviation», Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor;

Rozhkov Igor Vladimirovich – Head of the Technical Operation Cycle of Unmanned Aerial Systems of the Department of Unmanned Aerial Systems and Combat Management of the Educational Institution «Belarusian State Academy of Aviation», Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor.

The program is implemented with the assistance of the Belarusian State Academy of Aviation.

The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Technologies program includes:

• familiarization with innovations and promising developments in the field of unmanned aerial vehicle technologies in the world and the Republic of Belarus;
• study of aerodynamic schemes and designs, principles of operation, structure, and application of unmanned aerial vehicles;
• study of advanced technologies used in the creation of UAVs, the purpose and design of control and programming equipment;
• training in manual UAV control using an aircraft simulator;
• improvement of piloting techniques on real UAV models;
• mastering the skills of programming quadrocopters for autonomous flights;
• development of UAV design projects for use in the civilian sector;
• designing and programming UAVs to solve specific technical problems;
• development, design, and manufacturing of UAV structural elements.

Curators of the program:

Yakovlev Dmitry Stanislavovich – Head of the Laboratory of Aerospace Technologies at the National Children’s Technopark Educational Institution, Master of Sports of the Republic of Belarus in Air Model Sport, and National Category Sports Judge;

Dyakov Dmitry Aleksandrovich – Head of the Department of Unmanned Aerial Systems and Combat Management at the Belarusian State Academy of Aviation, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor;

Alexey A. Belyakov – Assistant of the Department of Forest Machinery, Roads and Technologies of Timber Industry Production of the educational institution «Belarusian State Technological University».

The program is implemented with the assistance of Belarusian State Academy of Aviation and Belarusian State Technological University.

The program “Design and initialization of on-board control systems for FPVdrones” includes:

• familiarization with innovations in the field of microelectronics and promising developments of unmanned systems in the Republic of Belarus and the world;
• deep study of the architecture of modern flight controllers, the principles of operation of microprocessors and inertial navigation systems;
• mastering technologies for designing electronic circuits and components used in high-tech unmanned aircraft systems;
• training in precision installation of SMD components, working with modern soldering and control equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers);
• study of low-level programming and initialization of the hardware platform (firmware, configuration of processor resources);
• development of autonomous guidance and computer vision algorithms for recognizing and tracking visual targets in real time;
• improvement of piloting skills in simulators and on real FPV models to verify the operation of the created onboard systems;
• design, build, and debug your own flight controller prototypes adapted to meet specific technical challenges.
• conducting scientific and technical research in the field of flight data filtering and optimization of unmanned aerial vehicle stabilization systems.

Curators of the program:

Puzanov Alexander Denisovich – Head of the research laboratory of robotic systems of the research unit of the educational institution “Military Academy of the Republic of Belarus”, Candidate of Technical Sciences;

Denisov Ivan Mikhailovich – Junior researcher of the Research Laboratory for modeling military operations of the research unit of the educational institution “Military Academy of the Republic of Belarus”, Master of Technical Sciences;

Bogdanov Andrey Vladimirovich – lecturer of the Department of Automation, Radar and Receiving and Transmitting Devices of the Military Academy of the Republic of Belarus educational institution, Master of Technical Sciences.

The program is implemented with the assistance of Military Academy of the Republic of Belarus.