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“We succeeded somehow with a not so beautiful, yet real-time stitched map. In this they were not completely successful, but still happy with their results. They planned a hybrid approach of balancing on-board processing with off-board processing to use the strengths of each. AKAMAV stated that there is no plug-and-play solution for live mapping an outdoor area, so they focused on that and were confident they could pull a win over their competition. The entire after-action report is worth a read but in particular their approach for the live mapping of an outdoor area is interesting. The indoor mapping and pickup-and-release missions were handled by a modified 250mm racer using a 360 degree camera combined with Pix4D software. the indoor missions were 60mm Tiny Whoop quads for the starting, entering, and landing portions.

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Flight controller was a pixhawk with APM:Copter and an onboard companion PC for other tasks, plus other components as needed. Overall the less humans were involved, the better the team’s score.įor the outdoor missions, AKAMAV used two identical 550mm quads with 600g payloads. choosing to land on a moving versus stationary platform.) Human piloting was a permitted option for the indoor missions, but for the outdoor missions flight had to be autonomous. Multiple drones could be used but teams scored better the smaller the drones were, the more missions were done in a single flight, and the higher the difficulty of the challenges (i.e. find specific objects and move them to designated locations) Pickup and release of specific objects (i.e.Enter a target building from doorway, chimney, or window.Landing on the same moving and rocking platform.Collection and delivery of a water sample.

Precise delivery of a life buoy / life-preserver.

Live mapping of a mission area to identify targets of interest.

Takeoff from a moving and rocking platform.

The eleven missions were inspired by a hypothetical oil spill on an oil platform. In their words, “If you share even a remote interest in flying robots and don’t mind the occasional spectacular crash, this place was Disney Land on steroids.” It covers not only the five outdoor and six indoor missions, but also details what it was like to prepare for and compete in such an intensive event. The IMAV (International Micro Air Vehicle) conference and competition is a yearly flying robotics competition hosted by a different University every year. AKAMAV – a university student group at TU Braunschweig in Germany – have written up a fascinating and detailed account of what it was like to compete (and take first place) in 2016’s eleven-mission event hosted by the Beijing Institute of Technology.ĪKAMAV’s debrief of IMAV 2016 is well-written and insightful.

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