New format for international UAV Outback Challenge to boost competition

The international $50,000 prize UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) Challenge – Outback Rescue competition held in approved airspace at Kingaroy, Queensland, will become a bi-annual event from 2011.

Challenge co-founder and ARCAA director, QUT’s Professor Rod Walker said the changes were being made to the Challenge to give search and rescue teams more time to gain autonomous flight experience and more high school teams the chance to enter.

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http://www.suasnews.com/2011/03/4482/new-format-for-international-uav-outback-challenge-to-boost-competition/

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John Cousins March 18, 2011 at 7:47pm

See you there... whenever that is!
David March 16, 2011 at 12:10pm

Ha! Seeing what you have done with your GCS, I believe you could pull it off :)
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Julian March 16, 2011 at 11:37am

this is great. I recently started an Unmanned Development Team at Cooper Union in Manhattan that has its sights set on this competition in the coming years. This gives us more chances to compete and, hopefully, win ;)

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