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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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  • Curtiss Chiang March 27, 2010 at 7:33pm
    The firmware used in the competition is MatrixPilot 2.0.2. The control gains are tunned for the airplane. The code is slightly modified in the judgement of waypoint arrival.

    The airframe is actually not the original EasyStar. It is the only one EasyStar-like kit what we can acquire in Taiwan. Although it has a different name, most of the RC hobbyists in Taiwan call it "Easy Star."

    Thanks to Google Translate. It has bothered me for a few days to translate the contents of the competition.
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    Krzysztof Bosak March 26, 2010 at 5:04am
    Their airframe is a slightly different mold of Pelican Focus (apparently discontinued). Focus had slightly less birdyish stabilizers.
  • Teejay March 26, 2010 at 3:41am
    @Morli - Here is the team list... but unfortunately there's no description on what AP/airframe they use...
  • Teejay March 26, 2010 at 2:46am
    Google Translate works well one of their pages here...
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    Gary Mortimer March 26, 2010 at 12:04am
    Well done, would love to find out about the other aerial competitors that you beat.
  • 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.
  • 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!"
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