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...
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...
In this year’s Search & Rescue Outback Challenge, teams will be judged on a variety of factors. The judging begins months before the actual event itself. By the time the teams show up at Kingaroy Airport in October 2012 they will have to have passed two “go/no-go” qualifying/disqualifying decisions by the competition organisers and will have already been awarded...
Andrew Tridgell talks about Team Canberra UAVs attempt to rescue Outback Joe this year at this years Linux.conf.au After a years gap things will start to hot up now for the OBC. The Ballarat Linux conference also sported a high altitude balloon launch. CanberraUAV will be using the Ardupilot autopilot from DIYdrones and have already added some handy features...
The international $50,000 prize UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) Challenge – Outback Rescue competition held in approved airspace at Kingaroy, Queensland, will become a biennial event from 2011. Challenge co-founder and ARCAA director, QUT’s Professor Rod Walker said the changes were being made to the Challenge to give search and rescue teams more time to gain autonomous flight experience and...
The 2010 Outback Challenge sUAS competition held at Kingaroy Queensland continues to attract media attention. Well done the organisers. This month its featured in airline Qantas in flight magazine, The Australian Way. One wonders just how many people will read about sUAS for the first time. Rumours fly around enthusiast forums about a new tougher format for the 2011 event. No...
In an article by Jane Symonds in Aviation Business Asia Pacific the leap forward made by competitors in this years competition was noted and Phil Presgrave of CASA made some interesting comments. Its interesting to watch developments being made by countries like Australia and the UK with the USA just about to leave the starting blocks. Will the USA...
An eventful drive to the Outback Challenge for Scott and Ian, sadly there troubles continued and the were not able to fly in this years competition. Joe’s just going to have to keep waiting. In their own words. Melbourne UAV is once again entering the Open Search and Rescue challenge section of the 2011 Australian Outback UAV Challenge. After getting...
Well, the dust has settled on the competition now and we made it home after a very long drive from Kingaroy. Well done to UND and Robota, a great effort from both teams to get as far as they did. Unbelievably, they were the only two teams that flew in the S&R competition this year; Joe was nearly rescued,...
Congratulations again to all that entered, here are the full results of the 2010 Outback Challenge:- Search and Rescue 1. University of North Dakota 70.1 2. Team Robota 52.7 3. Latitude 38UAV 25.6 4. MUROC...
