Competition

ATMOS, a hybrid airplane-quadrotor developed at the MavLab of TU-Delft, was awarded third place (out of 140) in the UAVForge Competition. There were more than 140 initial contestants and after several selection rounds with only 12 finalists, the paparazzi Lisa/M powered ATMOS was one of the few that could actually make it to the remote target site miles away in an RF unfriendly environment. No team fully completed the baseline objectives which is why no prices were issued. The vertical takeoff and landing, together with long range thanks to the wing and flexibility thanks to open-source paparazzi were key factors in this event [1].

Blender, the small but deserving quadrotor of the ENAC Paparazzi Team took the 1st place in the “Outdoor autonomy challenge” and 3rd place in the “Outdoor flight dynamics challenge” during the IMAV2012 competition in Braunschweig, Germany. Completing its missions with overflowing enthusiasm thanks to the new NavGo autopilot. NavGo is the latest in the long line of award winning Paparazzi hardware available. See the list of Paparazzi hardware here.

This year IMAV 2011 in Delft, Netherlands went really well for all of the participants, we have seen lots of successful flights. ENAC Paparazzi Team took the 2nd place in general “Outdoor Autonomy Challenge” and Fire Storm demonstrated 105+ minutes of flight and took the “Best Outdoor Endurance Award”.  He was waiting for this day for 2 years since the cancelation of IMAV 09. Additionally, Fire Storm flew its endurance mission with the new Umarim V1.0 autopilot board which will be released soon.

The IMAV 2010  International Micro Air Vehicles Conference and Flight Competition took place today in Braunschweig, Germany. The ENAC Paparazzi team took home 1st place for the outdoor
autonomy mission and 2nd place for the indoor flight dynamics
challenge. Both the indoor and the outdoor event consisted of two separate competitions, one focusing on high maneuverability, the other one focussing on the MAV’s ability to perform a complex
autonomous mission.

Brisbane Grammar School UAV

Team “Look mAh, no hands!” signalling the UAV is in fully autonomous mode

Paparazzi was a big success at the 2009 UAV Outback Challenge held at Kingaroy Airport, Queensland, Australia, Sep. 28-30. Team “Look mAh, no hands!” representing Brisbane Grammar School, won the ‘Robot Airborne Delivery Challenge’ placing 1st, after performing an autonomous mission phase including autonomous payload release. The team consisted of four members in their senior years of high-school, and was led by team captain Ben Paratz. Many thanks to the paparazzi community, not only for the autopilot itself but for the assistance that was enthusiastically given whenever needed. Link to competition

EMAV09 has already passed, now it is time to reveal our (ENAC-ISAE) new designs:

• Fire-Storm a 50cm wingspan MAV.
• Solar-Storm a 50cm wingspan MAV with hybrid power supply (solar and batteries).

The EMAV09 competition took place in Delft, Netherlands. With ENAC’s Paparazzi team winning second place in the outdoor mission this year.

The USU-OSAM Paparazzi team won the 1st place in the 7th AUVSI (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International) Student Unmanned Aircraft System Competition (18 teams total). The competition was held at Webster Field, Maryland, Jun. 17-20. The honor also goes to all of the Paparazzi community, especially the developers. Link to competition

The Paparazzi System has been shown at Paris Le Bourget Airshow by three companies:

• Fly-n-Sense with products FNS900-Seeker and ScanCopter CB500.
• AeroArt with the plume project with the support of Fly-n-Sense.
• Thales with the Spy’Arrow MAV.

ENAC / Paparazzi has won the ONERA-DGA Challenge, in France with a quadrotor. Twelve teams of French Universities out of 19 were chosen by ONERA-DGA to participate in this two years contest. ENAC designed a Paparazzi equipped Asctec quadrotor with an IMU developed in its lab.