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PenguCopter team wins RobotChallenge Airrace in Vienna

Posted by Tobias Simon on April 14, 2015 at 1:25am

Last weekend our team from Robotik AG Ilmenau won the RobotChallenge AirRace in Vienna, sharing the winner's podium with team "Sirin" from russia.

Both teams could complete 24 rounds in 10 minutes!

Our UAV is based on the Exynos 4 Quadrotor using 2 cores for opencv image processing and one for executing the flight code.

After our "safe trial", we increased the flight speed but unfortunately our attempt ended in red smoke (motor controller died).

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  • Tobias Simon April 14, 2015 at 10:46pm

    Thanks Tridge and Randy! In the last 6 Months I was completing my Ph.D project, thus there was not much time for PenguPilot (I wasn't very active on github, too). I'll try to spend more time on it in future... :-)

  • Developer
    Randy April 14, 2015 at 5:59pm

    Yeah, really excellent work!

  • Developer
    Andrew Tridgell April 14, 2015 at 1:41pm

    great work Tobias! It's amazing how far you've come with PenguPilot in such a short time!

  • robert bouwens April 14, 2015 at 11:54am

    again congrats!

    very nice to see your posting.

  • Tobias Simon April 14, 2015 at 11:25am

    Thanks, Chris! I'm currently working on even more modularization,.. I'll post an update if I find the time to complete it.

  • 3D Robotics
    Chris Anderson April 14, 2015 at 9:25am

    Congrats! I love the component/package-based approach on that Linux-based autopilot

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