Aerial robotics control and perception challenge

Challenge title
Aerial robotics control and perception challenge

Partner

This challenge is supported by robotics@fer.hr, organization of robotics laboratories at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia.

Application
Wind Farm inspection

Abstract
In the first stage (stage A), teams will compete in three tasks, all performed in a simulation environment, using Robot Operating System (ROS) and Gazebo simulator:

  1. hover under wind conditions for 2 minutes (RMS will be used to rank the teams);
  2. localize the plane of rotation of a wind generator (time will be used to rank the teams);
  3. detect up to 5 blade defects (number of successful detections will be used to rank the teams).

First three teams will be promoted to the second stage (stage B), and will win a chance to apply their algorithms on real platforms and compete during the conference.

The second stage will be held at the conference venue, using Parrot Bebop platform in a mockup wind farm environment.

 

Winners of the competition

The winner of the competition is team Crobots from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb. The team members were: Filip Zorić, Bojan Spahija, and Lovro Marković. Congratulations!

 

 

Results of the 2nd round

These are the final results and rankings for this challenge, as of May 9, 2018.

Rank

Team

Task 1

Task 2

Task 3

1

Crobots

0.1533m

1.2291m

1.4528

2

Teamsannio

0.9692m

2.2496m

200

3

Snehals

N/A

N/A

N/A

4

Overclocked

N/A

N/A

N/A

5

Cottonmouth

N/A

N/A

N/A

The finals will take place on Tuesday, June 19, 2018.