Outback Challenge 2011

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“On 16 March 2011, the UAV Challenge organizers announced major changes to the format of the Challenges. Stated changes included a new longer format Search and Rescue Challenge that results in an event at Kingaroy being held every two years instead of every year (as was done from 2007 to 2010) and the development of Australian State Championships for the Airborne Delivery Challenge. The organizers were quoted as saying that they believe this will lead to “more participants competing with a very high standard of UAV capability”.

For the first time, the event was not held at Kingaroy. Instead an Airborne Delivery Challenge (High-School teams) championship was held at Calvert Radio Aero Modellers Society flying field (approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Ipswich, Queensland) between September 27 and 28.”

2011 UAV Challenge Organizers

– Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation (ARCAA) (a five-year-long partnership between CSIRO and Queensland University of Technology)

– AUVS-Australia

2011 UAV Challenge Sponsors

– The Queensland State Government

2011 Assistance

– Ipswich City Council

2011 Technical Staff

– Boeing

– UAS Pacific

– Skills Queensland

2011 Airborne Delivery Challenge

2011 UAV Challenge Results

News Articles relating to the 2010 UAV Outback Challenge

sUASnews.com:

2011-03-16 New format for international UAV Outback Challenge to boost competition

2011-09-26 UAV Outback Challenge inspires Chelsea to be an aerospace engineer

Australian Broadcasting Corporation:

Higher education: flying robots deliver for Dickson College