Research and development of open-source UAV systems since 2003
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.
Pascal Brisset, also known as Hecto, and the father of the Paparazzi project died in an accident while climbing in the Pyrénées mountains in the south of France. He had dedicated the last seven years of his life to the success of the project. He was taking care of a huge part of the project by himself. To name only a few : development and maintenance of the entire ground segment, navigation and flight plan algorithms, code generation and build system, distribution packaging, server infrastructure…
The Institute of space systems of University of Stuttgart is using the paparazzi system for large remote sensing aircraft.
The missions include basic research and environmental monitoring. Payloads of up to 7kg are carried.
More information can be found on the Wiki page.
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:
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:
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.