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

Posted by Curtiss Chiang on March 25, 2010 at 5:34am

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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  • Admin
    Morli 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
  • Moderator
    Gary Mortimer March 26, 2010 at 12:04am
    Well done, would love to find out about the other aerial competitors that you beat.
  • Admin
    Morli March 25, 2010 at 8:20pm
    could or should/need to modify it, Ho?
  • Ho-Chung Chang 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.
  • Morli_ 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
  • Ben Levitt March 25, 2010 at 8:24am
    Sweet! Anyone know if this plane was using MatrixPilot? Or a modified version of it? Or something else?
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    Krzysztof Bosak 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!"
  • Morli_ 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
  • Morli_ March 25, 2010 at 5:40am
    that is cool competition, congrats to the winning team.
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