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CanberraUAV (ArduPlane) wins Outback Challenge!

Posted by Chris Anderson on October 2, 2012 at 4:00pm

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Congrats to Tridge and the CanberraUAV team for winning the 2012 Outback Challenge! The official results have just been posted:

Search & Rescue competition - FINAL SCORES In the end Canberra UAV were clear winners, finding Joe and making it...

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Tridge and CanberraUAV team are core ArduPlane developers and the UAV is flown by an APM 2 autopilot. So proud of Tridge and the team! No doubt a full report of how it went will be coming soon.

[UPDATE: The ultimate goal of the Outback Challenge is to drop a water bottle near Outback Joe (the dummy on the ground in the picture above), and no team accomplished that this year (the CanberraUAV bottle got stuck). So although CanberraUAV won easily on points this year, the ultimate challenge still remains for future competitions.] 

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  • Paul Marsh October 3, 2012 at 3:58pm

    Congratulations!  I can't wait to see and read more.

  • Developer
    Andrew Tridgell October 3, 2012 at 2:21pm

    Hi Jason,

    We will be posting full logs, plus images from our onboard camera and lots more in the next few days. I'm on a 2G wireless link at the moment and we have 37GByte of data and images from the flight so I can't really post it all now.

    Cheers, Tridge

  • Developer
    Jason Short October 3, 2012 at 2:00pm

    This is great news! Can't wait to read more. Any KMLs and video you can post as well would be great.

    Congratulations!

    Jason

  • Developer
    Sandro Benigno October 3, 2012 at 12:57pm

    Woohoo... Congratulations! =)

  • Moderator
    Roberto Navoni October 3, 2012 at 11:57am

    Great Work TRIDGE , congratulation ...

  • John Githens October 3, 2012 at 11:01am

    What an accomplishment! Congratulations!

  • Distributor
    Martint BuildYourOwnDrone.co.uk October 3, 2012 at 9:25am

    Great to see the win Tridge & Team! Congratulations too you all :)

  • Stephen Dade October 3, 2012 at 6:00am

    Thanks for all the messages of congratulations :)

    We've had an awesome time doing this project. Although we came very close to completing the Challenge, the fact that we got this far (with only 18 months of development) is an amazing feat in itself.


    We will be writing up more complete blogs in coming days.

    Stephen (Team Manager, CanberraUAV)

  • Nikos Gerarchakis October 3, 2012 at 5:08am

    MAny congratulations from Greece . Keep the good work to the rest of ardupilot family...

  • Developer
    Andrew Tridgell October 3, 2012 at 4:43am

    @Bim,

    Lots of teams used APM. There were 4 APM teams in the final 9 that got past the Deliverable 3 requirements.

    The competition doesn't require that you develop your own autopilot.

    Cheers, Tridge

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