Objective Competitions

 The competitions stimulate the practical demonstration of capabilities necessary for the application of MAV technology. The competitions have as goal to shorten the road from novel scientific insights to application of the technology in the field.

 

Specific objectives for the IMAV 2011 include the stimulation of:

(1) All-weather flight capabilities
(2) Higher levels of autonomy indoors and outdoors
(3) The use of multiple MAVs
 

Three competitions

The IMAV 2011 has three distinct competitions, two indoor competitions and one outdoor competition. The missions are explained in detail in the pdfs that can be downloaded below. All of the competitions have a scoring mechanism that especially reward autonomously flying MAVs. Please note that only autonomous flight and video-based flight are allowed in the competitions: manual flight via RC is only allowed as a tech demo of a novel MAV platform / concept.   

 

Borrow a Parrot AR Drone

Parrot has made it possible for the IMAV organization to lend drones to teams that wish to focus on the artificial intelligence / software part of the competitions.

Read more at the Borrow a Parrot AR Drone webpage.

 

Team registration

Teams should be registered at least one month before the conference starts. If the team does not borrow a Parrot AR Drone, there are no hard deadlines for team registration. However, it is important to note that COMPETITION PLACES ARE LIMITED: the online team registration will be stopped if the maximum number of places is reached. The online team registration will be opened in 2011.

 

Competition downloads
	Outdoor competition rules
	Indoor competition rules
	Safety document