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Another video from that amazing Chinese UAV carrier competition

Posted by Chris Anderson on October 6, 2011 at 5:59am

From Flight Global:

 

At least 100 teams from around China and the world entered vehicles to compete for roughlyUS$378,000 in prizes. It is possible that the event included the mysterious flying wing UAVreported on this blog last Friday, but we've found no references to it in Chinese news articles and videos already posted about the event. 

The most interesting design revealed by the Grand Prix is a flying-wing, tailed UAV submitted by Shenyang University, a school located in the same northeastern city as one of China's biggest makers of fighter jets.

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  • Jiaqi Hu October 9, 2011 at 6:36am 
    We also take part in the competition.

     

  • Zac October 6, 2011 at 8:26pm

    Geez, that is impressive! Hitting it at a slow speed is one thing, but that airframe is zooming right in there!

  • MarcS October 6, 2011 at 3:19pm

    Hi Mark, I want to see this supercomputer in your plane :-)

    The deviation sideways is not the reason to use DGPS, it´s the altitude. And you need precise altitue (not necessarily from DGPS...) to get the landing spot right, which is needed for getting the wire.

    This would be the part of the T3 contest to be honest... I can try 20 times and hit the wire perfectly once... But to be able to fly the landing reproducable over and over is the hard part.

  • Developer
    Mark Colwell October 6, 2011 at 2:59pm

    360° optical flow will nail these landings every time. No GPS needed! Just a super computer...

    See Doug's landing with Auto Flaps !!  1 meter from center of air strip on APM  should work just fine...

  • MarcS October 6, 2011 at 2:20pm

    Anybody got more information about technical details or competition rules?

    Autonomous landings were probably done with the help of DGPS, just my guess... Seems the only solution for this accuracy and if you watch the video (thanks Chris) at 00:14 you can see two tripods I know from RTK systems, correction receiver to the left and transmitter antenna to the right.

    And count me in for Garys idea! Carrier landing for T3!!!

  • Moderator
    Gary Mortimer October 6, 2011 at 11:15am

    Well lets make the next T3 a carrier landing then....

    The mystery UAV mentioned is flying in the first video... Its part of another program, standby for some word on that hopefully.

  • he jiang chuan October 6, 2011 at 10:21am

    oh, yes, it's amazing, it had a nice landing in this video. however, I didn't know this news from our media.

  • Moderator
    John Church October 6, 2011 at 9:45am

    Man, are we slackin', or what?   ;)

    Such a cool competition, too! Can't wait to try my hand at an upcoming T3 challenge.

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