The Silver Fox was originally developed by Advanced Ceramics Research (ACR), which was purchased by BAE in 2009. The Silver Fox is a gas/electric-powered unmanned system, weighing about 30 pounds. It can carry electro-optical and infrared sensors, providing full-motion imagery for both day and night operations. The Silver Fox carries small payloads and performs autonomous takeoffs and landings. The...
The Fly-Off is Here! Over the next two weeks the final ten teams will showcase their UAV’s at Fort Stewart in the UAVForge Fly-Off. Here’s some information about each of the remaining competitors. AeroQuad AeroQuad’s origin is based on crowd sourcing. They are a geographically dispersed community scattered around the world and because of this development is...
The UAV Challenge – Outback Rescue 2012 organisers have given the Go decision to 23 teams who submitted their Deliverable 2 technical reports and videos. The next milestone for these 23 teams, out of the original 53 teams who made the D1 cut, will be to submit their Deliverable 3 Autonomous Flight Record by the 15th of August this...
I will post more videos as the teams start putting them on Youtube. Once the UAV Challenge organisers have released the results of the Deliverable 2 Go/No-Go round, the links to these videos will become that team’s pages, so watch this space. Team LOAF and DGX Team ANU-CVR If your video isn’t on...
The deadline for teams to present their Deliverable 2 (D2) videos was 18 April, 2012. The UAV Challenge organisers are now analysing the teams’ video and technical report submissions to determine which teams go through to the next round of the competition. The next round of the Outback Challenge will see teams having to fly a minimum of...
The submission date for Deliverable 2 of the 2012 Search and Rescue Challenge has been extended by two weeks to the 18th of April 2012 at 07h00 UTC. Teams now have a bit more time to complete and submit their D2 Technical Reports and Videos. The rules document for this year’s competition has...
From the Middlesex University website A team of students from Middlesex University will take on some of the world’s top engineers after making the final of UAVForge, an international competition for unmanned air vehicles, held in the USA in May. The contest is run by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (US equivalent of the MoD) and the Space...
The DARPA UAV Forge competition is now approaching the Fly Off event at Fort Stewart, Georgia. No specific date for the Fly Off has been announced as yet but the organizers have stated that it will be held sometime around middle of May this year. Congratulations to the 12 teams that have been voted past Milestone 3 – Live Demo and are now the...
The rules for the UAV Challenge Airborne Delivery Challenge 2012 for high schools have been released. New to this year’s high school version of the main Outback Challenge is the so called “search phase”, an optional flying component. Teams will search an area that contains various symbols left by Outback Joe and the team that can read the most...
A total of 385 individuals voted 1511 times and 255 comments were posted by 158 individuals during the voting period. According to the UAV Forge organisers: “The final rankings posted for each team represent a filtered score that objectively captures the underlying information content of observable voting patterns. We won’t be more specific, because we aren’t willing to risk...
