Events on Paparazzi UAV Blog

ENAC Team wins at IMAV2022

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 12:39:52 +0000

The International Conference and Competition on MAV was organized by TUDelft mid-September 2022. The ENAC took part to the outdoor competition, a package delivery challenge, with several multi-rotors and a hybrid tail-sitter, all powered by Paparazzi.

They won the competition with a quite large amount of points. Nevertheless, all teams performed well with some innovative platforms.

Several papers have been presented to the conference by the ENAC team and the other participants. The proceedings are freely available on the conference website.

Paparazzi wins at IMAV2018

Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:24:44 +0000

Enac UAV team and TUDelft MAVLAB team took part to the IMAV2018 conference and competition in Australia with great success!

For the first time, the two academic lead developers of the Paparazzi UAV system join efforts to participate to the Outdoor competition and won this event far ahead.

Several tasks have been completed, including a mapping (performed using OpenDroneMap) of the flight area with automatic detection of hazards hidden in the field (with a light fixed wing aircraft) and an autonomous obstacles avoidance navigation near trees (with Bebop2 + SlamDunk from Parrot).

Opening ENAC's flying arena

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 21:25:04 +0000

Since the beginning of the year, ENAC (French Civil Aviation University) is equipped with a new facility dedicated to UAVs research and education.

The building includes a flying arena with a size around 10x10x10 meters, several workshops for mechanics, electronic, composite, 3D printing and storage. It also includes a teaching room for automatic control and the student’s robotics club.

The official opening was the 17th of May in the presence of the French minister of transport. Several demonstrations have been performed, all of them showing the formidable capabilities of Paparazzi: distributed formation flight, hybrid vehicles, on-board image processing, efficient adaptive control and autonomous navigation.

IMAV2016

Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:43:49 +0000

The International Micro-Air Vehicle Conference and Competition was held last week in Beijing, China, organized by the Beijing Institute of Technology and the National University of Singapore.

As usual, the level of the teams involved in the competition is higher year after year and we had a great show. The team from the MAVLAB of TUDelft was participating to both indoor and outdoor session. During the outdoor, they unfortunately couldn’t show their best due to many communication issues, preventing them to fully use their RTK Bebop2 (and also some regressions in Paparazzi code, hum hum… :( ).

Paparazzi UAV at DefCon 24

Wed, 03 Aug 2016 22:39:16 +0000

We will be at DefCon 24. A yearly hacker conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. If you are there make sure to say hi. To get in touch just send a mention or private message to @paparazziuav on twitter or a contact us in our Gitter Discuss channel.

1BitSquared will be there selling their hardware. If you are interested send them a message to @1bitsquared on twitter. They will have Elle0, Lisa/S, Lisa/MX, Lisa/M autopilots for sale as well as Lisa/S starter kits and Quad Kits. The new Black Magic Probe v2 programming and debugging adapter will be available at the Hacker Warehouse in the Vendor area.

Flights at the ISARRA2016 conference

Sun, 24 Jul 2016 21:58:21 +0000

Last May, the ISARRA conference (International Society for Atmospheric Research using Remotely Piloted Aircraft) was held in Toulouse, France (http://www.meteo.fr/cic/meetings/2016/isarra/).

The week before the conference, a few teams of researchers gathered to share experiences and fly their drones at the Atmospheric Research Center of Lannemezan near the Pyrenees. Among them was some of the oldest users of Paparazzi: Martin Muller (http://blog.pfump.org), the team of Joachim Reuder from the Geophysical Institute of Bergen, the UAV Lab of ENAC and the French Meteorological Research Center who was hosting the event.

Paparazzi UAV at 32C3 Recap

Mon, 04 Jan 2016 00:28:32 +0000

Here is a short review of our Paparazzi UAV meet up at the 32C3.

For those of you who have never heard of the Chaos Communication Congress, it is a hacker conference that takes place every year between Christmas and New Year’s Eve in Germany. For many years it was held in Berlin, but with the increased attendance a larger venue was needed, it is now being held in Hamburg, Germany.

Most people arrive in Hamburg on the 26th of December for day 0 of the conference. We met our assembly in the large Hackcenter hall. EZ who helped organize lodging for a lot of us also found and reserved tables for us. Usually it was the CCC organizers who were reserving the tables for the so called Assemblies. This time they did not do that for any Assembly with less than a 100 members. This shows how big the event is getting.

Paparazzi UAV at 32C3

Tue, 01 Dec 2015 03:34:38 +0000

This year we will be having another meetup at the 32nd Chaos Communication Congress (32C3) in Hamburg, Germany. The event is happening from December 27th to 30th, 2015. Make sure to secure your tickets! When you are in the area, find us and say hi! We will have our Assembly there and will have lot’s of cool hardware and people with us. See you there! :D

IMAV 2015 Competition

Sat, 05 Sep 2015 08:50:55 +0000

This year‘s International Micro Air Vehicles Conference and Flight Competition (IMAV 2015) is organized by the Institute of Flight System Dynamics of the RWTH Aachen University and the German Institute of Navigation. It takes place in Aachen, Germany from September 15 - 18, 2015. If you are in the area, you should check out the event.

IMAV is a yearly event that combines a diversified scientific conference with a technological competition involving Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs). Such a combination allows research groups from all over the world to share their knowledge, and stimulates them to focus on research that can be used in real life scenarios. Every year the competition scenarios become more advanced and more extensive. However, competitors are given the opportunity to either do complete missions, or to focus on sub-elements of the mission scenario.

PaparazziUAV Flying Robots on Slashdot

Fri, 21 Aug 2015 02:37:19 +0000

The kind folks over at Slashdot.org were nice enough to stop by the PaparazziUAV booth at OSCON 2015 to talk about flying robots. Thanks Tim for the opportunity to talk about HooperFly, the Lisa/MX autopilot from 1bitsquared and the coolest open-source UAV software on the planet, PaparazziUAV.

Here’s a link to the video: Flying Robots on Slashdot.org

Chaos Communication Camp 2015

Mon, 10 Aug 2015 19:49:17 +0000

From 13. - 17. August 2015 we are attending the Chaos Communication Camp in Ziegeleipark Mildenberg, Zehdenick, Germany. If you are attending too make sure to visit our Village and say hi.

Paparazzi UAV Videos 2004-2010

Sun, 19 Jul 2015 09:50:42 +0000

A few days ago ENAC UAV Lab uploaded their Paparazzi UAV video collection from 2004-2010. If you are interested in some Open-Source UAV history you should take a look at them.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD885PC3Hy2DhiL_OEH3qMrcOFEh2McGN

It is exciting to see how many things Paparazzi UAV could already do 5 to 10 years ago, as well as how far things have improved and evolved since then.

One of the highlights is a multi UAV flight at IMAV2006. This is 9 years ago. It is great to see how relaxed the safety pilots are. :)

Paparazzi UAV at OSCON 2015

Thu, 16 Jul 2015 23:39:32 +0000

We will be showing off some of our hardware at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2015 (OSCON). The event is happening on July 20–24, 2015 in Portland, Oregon USA.

Piotr Esden-Tempski from 1BitSquared together with Rich Burton from Hooperfly will be bringing some of their Paparazzi UAV based creations to show off. If you are attending OSCON find us in the exhibition hall for the hardware showcase and say “Hi”. We would love to meet some fellow Paparazzians.

TU Delft Student Challenge 2015

Wed, 27 May 2015 11:09:28 +0000

Students at the TU Delft MavLab compete with ARDrones running Paparazzi to fly seamlessly around obstacles without injuring the aircraft. The object to autonomously avoid all obstacles. This is a fantastic demonstration of the flexibility of the Paparazzi system and its ability to fly accurately around waypoints.

IMAV 2014 Recap

Sat, 16 Aug 2014 06:27:37 +0000

IMAV 2014 was a great experience this year. If you don’t know what it is, its a micro air vehicle competition and conference that was held in Delft, Netherlands.

During the three days of the conference, there were many very interesting talks and presentations as well as an incredible showcase of research talent during the competition. Here is a playlist of the talks, they can be found on the TU Delft MAVlab YouTube channel.

IMAV 2014 Live Streams

Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:00:45 +0000

The Micro Aerial Vehicle Laboratory (MAVLab) of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) is proud the present the 2014 International Micro Air Vehicle Conference (IMAV 2014), now offering the possibility of attending the conference by live stream free-of-cost. The live stream will support most platforms showing innovative keynotes of pioneers in the industry as well as the current state-of-the-art presented by many researchers working on MAV’s. The schedule is published on the website of the conference. Tuesday, August 12th, 2014

PAPARAZZI AT DEFCON 22

Fri, 01 Aug 2014 01:42:02 +0000

Paparazzi UAV and 1BitSquared will be attending this years DefCon 22 in Las Vegas, Nevada. It takes place from August 7th through 10th, 2014.

We will be at the Hak5 vendor booth, with Lisa/S autopilots, Black Magic Probe, Nano Quad kits and more. Please come by and say hi!

Paparazzi at 30C3

Fri, 27 Dec 2013 00:00:49 +0000

The 30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress was held in the Congress Center in Hamburg, Germany on December 27th-30th, 2013. We were present there as part of the Paparazzi UAV Assembly.

Piotr Esden-Tempski of 1BitSquared made a presentation on Paparazzi’s History in the main events hall during the congress.

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IePG2fzKvF0

'A drone inside everybody's pocket'

Sun, 06 Oct 2013 00:30:21 +0000

Bart Remes of TU-Delft MAVLab speaking at TEDxAmsterdam. The topic, ‘A drone inside everybody’s pocket’. Bart demonstrates the ease of flight with a Paparazzi Lisa/S autopilot powered nano quadrocopter.

IMAV 2013

Fri, 20 Sep 2013 00:00:28 +0000

The MavLab team of TU Delft consisted of 12 people coming from aerospace, computer science, embedded programming and artificial intelligence. Thanks to the enormous team efforts in the last months, the team has won prizes in all the categories in which it participated at IMAV 2013 in Toulouse, France:

Outdoor: 1st place

With an autonomous swarm of 12 MAVs operated by a single operator. The MAVs only had to be plugged in and started with their own flight plan, while the operator could monitor their mission status and intervene where necessary. Our participation featured four main innovations: (1) a single operator for 12 MAVs, 3 hybrid UAVs, 7 Parrot AR drones and 2 mini-quadrotors, (2) onboard vision processing on the AR drone with Paparazzi, (3) hybrid UAVs able to fly under any attitude, and (4) the world’s smallest open source autopilot, Lisa/S (2 grams). The wind conditions were terrible on the outdoor competition day, with 6 Bft, and most teams had their MAVs blown away. Everybody was impressed with how the hybrid UAVs were able to cope nicely with these conditions and were still able to perform a precision landing.

Paparazzi at DefCon 20

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:00:09 +0000

Paparazzi was at the DefCon 20 conference in Las Vegas, USA from July 26th - 29th 2012 and presented the project to a wide audience of interested hackers.

ATMOS Hybrid UAV

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:00:58 +0000

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].

1st Place at IMAV 2012 for ENAC Paparazzi Team

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:00:18 +0000

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.

Paparazzi at 28C3

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:20:47 +0000

If you are planning to visit this years 28C3, and you remember seeing us there last year. We want to let you know that Paparazzi UAV has a dedicated table on the upper floor, and it should be easier to find. We will be very happy if you come by and say hi!

IMAV 2011

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:01 +0000

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.

Paparazzi at Chaos Communication Camp 2011

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:45:18 +0000

Hi,

Just to give you guys a heads up. Several of the Paparazzi core developers are planning to go to the Chaos Communication Camp 2011 in Finowfurt (near Berlin) in Germany. The event will last for the 4 days 10|11|12|13|14th August 2011. If you have a chance be sure to visit us there. We plan on releasing some really cool new things at the event. I am sure if you are interested in UAV, Multicopter or Aircraft you will not want to miss this!

Paparazzi at the 27C3

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:36:57 +0000

It has been a little quiet here over the Christmas and New Year break. We were busy though. Felix Ruess, Martin Müller and me (Piotr Esden-Tempski) were at the 27th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. We presented Paparazzi and received lot’s of interest.

Felix gave an interview about Paparazzi to Projectmovie 2010. It is in German but the makers of the movie are planning to add English subtitles to the movie at some point. :)

IMAV 2010 Competition

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:03:16 +0000

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.

Outback Challenge 2009

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:26 +0000

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

EMAV 09 Recap

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:42 +0000

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).

EMAV 09 Results

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:02:03 +0000

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

1st Place at AUVSI for USU-OSAM Paparazzi team

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:09 +0000

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

Paparazzi in the Industry

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:08 +0000

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 wins ONERA-DGA Challenge

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:18 +0000

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.

EMAV 2009 Invitation

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:32 +0000

Dear Paparazzi members, the registration for EMAV09 is now open at http://www.emav09.org/.

We look forward to meeting many paparazzi teams at this yearly event.

ASME/IEEE Call for Papers

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:52 +0000

Paparazzi Developers, This is to announce a Call for Papers for the 2009 ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA09), part of ASME IDETC09. The conference is to be held August 30 - September 2, 2009 at the San Diego Convention Center. This Call for Papers is specific to the Session chaired by myself, Antoine Drouin, and Anton Kochevar. This topic of this session is " Open Source UAV Autopilots: Status and Progression", part of a symposium of MESA09 called “Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Technologies and Applications (SUAVTA)”. This Technical Session is meant to be a session that will focus on Paparazzi, the topics can include specific features developed for Paparazzi or applications using Paparazzi along with other innovative aspects or uses of Paparazzi. We hope to make this one of the largest and best conferences dealing with Paparazzi. Please help us to promote Paparazzi and bring this amazing project to even more people. Full paper deadline is Feb. 27, 2009 using the online submission system.

Motodrone in Finowfurt

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:40 +0000

A paparazzi team took part in the Motodrone event held in Finowfurt near Berlin. It was fun, the beer was cool and barbecues worked flawlessly. And we flew funjets… Video

Second Place at Student AUVSI Competition

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:51 +0000

The OSAM Paparazzi team took 2nd place in the Sixth Annual Student Unmanned Aerial Systems Competition! The event is sponsored by AUVSI (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International) and was held at Webster Field, St. Inigoes, Maryland. It should also be noted that this was Paparazzi’s and the OSAM Paparazzi team’s first time at the competition. Link to competition Highlight Video of Competition

US-Asian MAV 2008

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:21:18 +0000

Paparazzi attended the US-Asian MAV 2008 competition taking place in Agra, India. The ENAC team won the “Best Autonomous MAV” Award.

Here is the program for the event.

MAV08 Proceedings

Flying Aircraft over Internet

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:00:48 +0000

From the 24C3 conference, Paparazzi aircraft operated in Hildesheim, Germany and in Castagnac, France were remote controlled in real time by Martin and Antoine (the station in Istanbul, Turkey was lacking a security pilot). The three local ground control stations and the remote one in Berlin were connected to a central server (located in Germany). Video from the 2 aircraft was also visible from the conference room in real-time. It was the result of great team work and … a lot of fun. See media section for some press coverage. The session video is available as a torrent here in Matroska or MPEG-4 format and these are the presentation slides.

MAV 07 Success

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:00:11 +0000

MAV 07 was yet another great success for the project! Paparazzi teams took 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th places in the outdoor autonomous surveillance competition and were honored to share the 1st place award with the very well designed Micropilot-equipped 48cm Ping Wing from Linköping University in Sweden. The first Paparazzi helicopter, Twisted Logic proved that a passively stable helicopter could operate well in mild outdoor winds and also took 2nd place in the indoor competition, surpassed only by the “Father of passively stable helicopters”, world famous Petter Muren of Proxflyer and BladeRunner fame. The team of Christian Lindenberg and (fake) Martin Müller also won the special award from the jury for it general performance and fair spirit.

MAV 07

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:00:02 +0000

MAV 07 will be held in Toulouse, France (of course!) September 17-21, 2007. Expect to see lots of great Paparazzi systems kicking ass and taking names!

2nd and 3rd places on MAV 06

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:00:17 +0000

Two Paparazzi teams, ENAC/Miraterre and Martin Mueller/Christian Lindeberg won 2nd and 3rd place at the MAV06 competition in Sandestin, Florida. Unfortunately, both teams had insufficient video resolution to identify the 1.5m ground target required for high-scoring and the winning prize went to Bringham Young University who was able to identify 2 of the 3 targets with a Panasonic KX-141 camera and an unusually narrow 30 degree FOV lens. The Bringham Young team used the Procerus Kestrel autopilot (originally developed at the university) and obviously practiced video target recognition much more than the rest of us.

2003 - 2006

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:45 +0000

Paparazzi has come a long way since it’s creation in 2003. For a bit of nostalgia browse the original website.

EMAV 06 Results

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:14:12 +0000

The EMAV06 competition took place in Braunschweig, Germany. All the teams were equipped with Paparazzi. With four Paparazzi teams winning four first places. ENAC took 3rd place in the “Fixed-Wing” category.

MAV 05 Results

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:35:37 +0000

MAV05 took place in Garmisch, Germany. With three ENAC Paparazzi teams taking the first three places in the competition.

EMAV 04 Results

Tue, 10 Aug 2004 01:16:28 +0000

EMAV04 took place in Braunscheweig, Germany. With the ENAC Paparazzi team taking the first place with a Microjet (0.65cm, 0.4kg).

JMD 03 Results

Sat, 20 Sep 2003 09:10:32 +0000

Paparazzi was very successful at the JMD03 (Journées Micro Drones) competition/conference in Toulouse, France. The ENAC team won first place with a Twinstar (1.4m, 1.4kg).