Outback Challenge D2 decisions

6 September 2010

1. Melbourne UAV 2. MUROC Wild-Hogs 3. OpenUAS 4. Unmanned Innovation 5. University of Sydney UAV Team 6. AusUAV 7. Swinburne UAV 8. Latitude38UAV 9. Stratos 10. Robota 11. Team Skylight 12. Unmanned Aircraft Systems Engineering Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d963').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
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Pimp my ARdrone

3 September 2010
Pimp my ARdrone

An active community is growing fast modifying the Parrot ARdrone here Most exciting development Linux based navigation. We have picked up a couple of interesting posts, Android is still not supported. Several people have had motors die and there is at least one fly away reported. The next logical step for hackers has to...
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Outback Challenge first two casualties, first two successes

2 September 2010

Team Rocky and Rescue Robotics have confirmed that they are out. A shame, still it will give them longer to prepare for next year. Monday seems to happen three days earlier in Australia than here! Dear Team Rocky The UAV Challenge Technical Committee has now met and I am afraid that I have to...
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Outback Challenge 2010, 12 teams through.

2 September 2010
Outback Challenge 2010, 12 teams through.

Mick Molloy, member of the technical committee for the Outback Challenge reports that out of the 21 entrants for the Search and Rescue Challenge only 12 have made it through the Deliverable 2 stage. Deliverable 2: Flight Readiness Review (Technical Report and Video) A technical report (Section 6.2) must be provided. The underlying objective of this report...
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Denel deny link with new Iranian drone.

2 September 2010
Denel deny link with new Iranian drone.

Denel Dynamics is formally denying it has supplied tactical surveillance unmanned aerial vehicles or target drones to Iran. That country recently launched a turbojet-powered drone, called the “Karrar.” This led to speculation that it might be a modified version of the Skua, the high-speed target drone, developed and produced by Denel Dynamics. “There is...
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Aurora Flight Sciences win Orion bid

1 September 2010
Aurora Flight Sciences win Orion bid

Aurora Flight Sciences has been awarded a contract by the United States Department of Defense to build an unmanned vehicle — the Orion Unmanned Aerial System — which is developed at Aurora’s Columbus facility — for the Medium Altitude Global ISR and Communications program, Republican U.S. Sens. Roger Wicker and Thad Cochran announced today....
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