IEEE Autonomous UAV "Drone" Chase Challenge - Spring 2022
Competitors wrote software to track a rover with a pilotlless drone through an obstacle rich environment using onboard sensors and processing.
The winning team, Quetzalcoatlus, is from V. A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences in Russia. The two other finalists were the BioRobotics-SSSA Team from The BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy, and the High Flyers team from Silesian University of Technology Gliwice in Poland.
The competition was hosted by the Purdue UAS Research and Test Facility (https://engineering.purdue.edu/PURT). The competition was supported by a National Science Foundation grant for “Research Infrastructure for Real-Time Computer Vision and Decision Making via Mobile Robots.”
For Fall 2022 competition updates see: https://ri4rover.org/competition.html