Events

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.