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... http://fb.me/1FWDJ5f81
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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congratulations!
I just read the final analysis from the uav obc:
"The distances reported by the team for Outback Joe had an error of 6.56m, 4.40m and 3.16m."
This is quite impressive
can't wait to read the full report / blog :-)
@Geoffrey,
We'll post full config details when we get home, but basically we had a bullet M5HP on the GCS with a 20dBi patch running at a transmit power of 36dBm EIRP. On the plane we had a Ubiquity Rocket M5 with two 5dBi antennas, one horizontal, one vertical. That gave us 32dBm EIRP.
We got about 25% packet loss on the Ubiquity link over the whole flight, mostly on the southern legs of the mission, when the 50cc motor was between the antennas and the GCS. We should have put the antennas on the wings. We used a custom image transmission protocol called block_xmit to transfer the data - that protocol handles packet loss very nicely.
Cheers, Tridge
Congratulations! I can't wait to see and read more.
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
This is great news! Can't wait to read more. Any KMLs and video you can post as well would be great.
Congratulations!
Jason
Woohoo... Congratulations! =)
Great Work TRIDGE , congratulation ...
What an accomplishment! Congratulations!
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)
MAny congratulations from Greece . Keep the good work to the rest of ardupilot family...
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