EasyStar and UAV devBoard got First Place in "2010 Taiwan Robot Aircraft Design and Photography Competition"

The competition held on March 20 and 21 in Taiwan. There are various events in the competition. Please refer to the official site : http://www.iaa.ncku.edu.tw/~whlai/uav/2010/
One of the events is Beyond-Vision-Range Flight. The airplane should fly far away and take some pictures of ground targets. The locations of tragets in the competition are shown in the following figure. The farest waypoint is about 3 km from home location.


We used EasyStar as the vehicle and UAV devBoard as the contorller. The plane crashed twice due to EMI problem before the successful flight. Because of the strong wind, it deviated from the expected flight path and disappered in the sky for about half an hour. When we were going to give up and the referee had asked the next team to take off, it suddently showed up above the home location. The crowd cheered as the plane safely landed on the runway.

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Comment by Morli_ on March 25, 2010 at 5:40am
that is cool competition, congrats to the winning team.
Comment by Morli_ on March 25, 2010 at 5:44am
is there a English ver of the site, Curtiss? More details of your airframe , camera, ground control station etc is appreciated. more photo or videos too pls. thanks for sharing
Comment by Krzysztof Bosak on March 25, 2010 at 5:46am
I saw this scenario with EasyUAV a few times:
"It's all lover, it's gone... Then 30mins later: voila, you see, on time and schedule, total victory!"
Comment by Ben Levitt on March 25, 2010 at 8:24am
Sweet! Anyone know if this plane was using MatrixPilot? Or a modified version of it? Or something else?
Comment by Morli_ on March 25, 2010 at 8:38am
Ben , I believe UAV Db was used as the title, but I could not find any more info from the site.( almost every thing is in Taiwanese i guess
Comment by Ho-Chung Chang on March 25, 2010 at 7:04pm
I think it should be used MatrixPilot with different parameter. The algorithm of MatrixPilot is so good that I can't believe the colleage students could modify it.

Moderator Comment by Morli on March 25, 2010 at 8:20pm
could or should/need to modify it, Ho?

Moderator Comment by Gary Mortimer on March 26, 2010 at 12:04am
Well done, would love to find out about the other aerial competitors that you beat.

Moderator Comment by Morli on March 26, 2010 at 2:28am
it is in the results page of website but I can't make head or tail out of it Gary
Comment by Teejay on March 26, 2010 at 2:46am
Google Translate works well one of their pages here...

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