As expected, CanberraUAV - who almost completed the UAV Outback Challenge last time - won the challenge, taking home $50k in prize money. 2 years ago they failed only because their bottle deployed unintentionally during flight. This year, they got the bottle within 3 metres (2.6) of Outback Joe (who they're trying to find and rescue with a bottle, in this S&R competition scenario).
Here's a great write-up debrief by them: (obligatory iframe)
Make sure to check out the really cool software they put up on github! And also that documentation repo. One of the coolest things about CanberraUAV is how open they are (as in open-source), and how much they share with other teams!
Unfortunately, while the Monash UAS team's (which I joined recently) plane flew very well, they couldn't find Joe. I'll be going to the internal debrief on Tuesday and hopefully learn more, as well as try and locate Joe using (augmentations of) our software from our data gathered.
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Space pretties incoming! Check this photo! (link to NASA APOD page)
Much wow. So mind-bend - how?!. Also check out a lot of the guy's other really cool photos. I obviously really like the aurora photos in his gallery.
Here's a great write-up debrief by them: (obligatory iframe)
Make sure to check out the really cool software they put up on github! And also that documentation repo. One of the coolest things about CanberraUAV is how open they are (as in open-source), and how much they share with other teams!
Unfortunately, while the Monash UAS team's (which I joined recently) plane flew very well, they couldn't find Joe. I'll be going to the internal debrief on Tuesday and hopefully learn more, as well as try and locate Joe using (augmentations of) our software from our data gathered.
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Space pretties incoming! Check this photo! (link to NASA APOD page)
Much wow. So mind-bend - how?!. Also check out a lot of the guy's other really cool photos. I obviously really like the aurora photos in his gallery.
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