Comment by Alex on June 20, 2010 at 8:20pm

Joe, could you post any pictures from the event.

Moderator Comment by Alex on June 20, 2010 at 11:41pm

Is there a website for this competition? I have found rhisone, but it does not seem to be up to date?

Comment by Shadowclaw on June 21, 2010 at 8:02am

Thats the correct website Alex, it usually takes them a few days to update the site after the competition is over

Comment by Chris McNair on June 21, 2010 at 8:09am

■Florida International University Atto Powered! Great job Hillar!

Comment by Joe on June 21, 2010 at 9:16am

Hillar's autonomous flight went very smoothly. NCSU was also recognized with the Good Samaritan award for helping FIU out. Of the five people that supported their mission at the flight line, three were from NCSU. We helped him out last year and were happy to do so again.

We have about 3 gigs of photos to sort through from the competition. I'll get those up sometime during this next week.

Comment by Chris McNair on June 21, 2010 at 9:36am

Very cool and great to see others help out when needed! Looking forward to those pictures.

Comment by Chris McNair on June 21, 2010 at 9:39am

Is there a list of the aircraft and AP's that competed?

Comment by Joe on June 21, 2010 at 1:17pm

There is no published list, but I'll list those that I know:

North Carolina State University
- Cloud Cap Piccolo LT
- 8ft Modified Telemaster

Mississippi State University
- Cloud Cap Piccolo LT
- Large carbon fiber gas powered plane

Embry Riddle Aeronautical University (Blackbird)
- Cloud Cap Piccolo II
- Small electric hand lanched

Sherbrooke University (VAMUdes)
- Custom
- Long thin aircraft with four props for quad-copter like VTOL (only two engines used)

Air Force Academy
- Cloud Cap Piccolo II
- High wing electric trainer

Utah State University
- Paparazzi
- Foam blended wing-body with rudder and elevator set back on booms

Embry Riddle Aeronautical University (SOAR)
- Ardupilot
- Easystar

Oakland University
- Quad-copter

VCU
- Helicopter

I've put up a post describing our imagery results on my site:

Developer Comment by Pat Hickey on June 21, 2010 at 4:09pm

Rutgers competed with my Paparazzi for Linux based autopilot, but we had a number of failures close to competition so we didn't fly autonomously. You can read our tech report: http://moreproductive.org/rutgers_auvsi_uas_2010_techreport.pdf

Comment by Alex on June 21, 2010 at 9:31pm

Us on the flightline (plane flying over, you can see the safety pilot watching it holding the remote)

Pop up target: this year it was a sniper

Here is two examples of the targets. Approx 4' across from ~300 ft above with Nikon D60 on a gimbal

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