Within the framework of Armenian Robots Open Championship (ArmRobotics) the Union of Information Technologies Enterprises (UITE) announces the opening of registration for the ‘Unmanned Aerial Vehicle’ (UAV) contest. The participants of this contest must design and prepare unmanned aircraft that must recognise the navigation signs and send pictures of the area online, find the specially assigned tee, drop a load of 300 grams and fly back to its original place of flight.
The aircraft may be of any type of construction including: - VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) - CTOL (Conventional Take-Off and Landing) - STOVL (Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing) etc.
The take-off and landing can be non-autonomous.
For participation to this contest participants need to register here from 13/01/12 to 12/03/12 inclusive.
ArmRobotics is established by UITE, the main sponsor is VivaCell-MTS, technical equipment was provided by Artin Varoujan company, supporters are the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia and Microsoft Innovation Center of Armenia.
Source: Panorama AM