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From: arkin@cc.gatech.edu (Ronald C. Arkin)
Subject: UAV Competition Friday
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Posted for a colleague: (please reply to e-mail 
 address robert.michelson@gtri.gatech.edu
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   The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems (AUVS) will sponsor the
1993 International Aerial Robotics competition at the Georgia Tech Student
Athletic Complex field beginning at 7 AM on Friday, June 25, 1993.  All are
invited.  There is no charge to witness this event.  It should run about
six hours in order to accommodate the fifteen teams that are expected to
compete.

   The teams include the Beijing University for Aeronautics and
Astronautics, the City College of New York, the University of Dayton, three
teams from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Mississippi State
University, two teams from the U.S. Naval Academy, the Southern College of
Technology, two teams from the University of British Columbia, the
University of Southern California, and two teams from the University of
Texas at Arlington.

   The flying robots will be variants of helicopters (single and multiple
blades/engines), neutral bouyancy vehicles, tail sitters, ducted fans, and
blimps.  Some of these robots will have autonomous sub-vehicles which will
be lowered down from the air vehicle to search for and acquire one of six
3" metal disks located in a 6' diameter pick-up ring.  The robots are fully
autonomous and must become airborne, maintain stability, locate the pick-up
ring, navigate over to it, acquire on of the six disks, and transfer it
across a boundary to a similar ring about 40' away.  Then it is to repeat
the process until all disks have been transferred.  At no time will the
vehicles have any human control (except for a safety kill-switch).  Each
team will have one hour to make as many attempts to achieve all or part of
the mission.

   This will be the third year that teams from around the world have
attempted to perform this mission autonomously.

   A $10,000 prize will be awarded to the winning team by the Association
for Unmanned Vehicle Systems at its national symposium in Washington DC on
June 29.

   For further information contact Robert Michelson, Principal Research
Engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute in Atlanta, at
michelsn@prism.gatech.edu  (Michelson is also the Executive Vice President
and Technical Chairman for the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems) 


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=  ROBERT C. MICHELSON                    Voice:  (404) 528-7568  =
=  Principal Research Engineer              FAX:  (404) 528-3271  =
=              E-MAIL:	michelsn@prism.gatech.edu                  =
=                 or:  robert.michelson@gtri.gatech.edu           =
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=   (Georgia Institute of Technology - Atlanta, Georgia  30332)   =
=   Georgia Tech Research Institute,	Aerospace Laboratory, CCRF   =
=           7220 Richardson Road, Smyrna, Georgia  30080          =
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Ronald C. Arkin
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280
Phone: (404)-894-8209            Fax: (404)-853-9378
