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Aerial Robotics Competition

Posted by michael on from the buzz-bomb dept.

anphilip writes "The annual International Aerial Robotics Competition just wrapped up, and I thought while our teams waited for the results I'd let the folks at Slashdot know about it. At any rate there's a brief story here and the group website is here."

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  1. Re:Whoa by mikeophile · · Score: 4, Informative

    She is.

  2. Re:Army can't do it? by D.Throttle · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you read the article more carefully it says "Mike Kennedy, a robotics projects officer at the lab". He's an officer in the ARMY at Fort Benning where this took place.

  3. Groups site google cache. by the1truedan · · Score: 1, Informative

    Waterloo Aerial Robotics Group Google Cache

    Karma police, enjoy.

  4. Robot Soccer? by raquelita · · Score: 2, Informative

    See this...

    The 9th World Cup is coming

    And then we talk...

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  5. Re:Army can't do it? by RWerp · · Score: 2, Informative

    FYI: the Canadian government does not like to brag about it, but Canadian snipers had more kills in Afghanistan than any others (probably per sniper, but who knows).

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  6. It's not just bureaucracy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are a lot of considerations the military has to deal with that don't apply to "normal" situations.

    The example of hiking gear is a good one. Sure you can sell all kinds of stuff to hikers who go out a couple of weekends a year... that's completely different from providing something to someone who is going to spend six months of every year in all kinds of outdoor environments from the desert to arctic/alpine climate. (Ask me how I know gear is used like this :-/ )

    When I was in the 82nd, sure my pack was a lot heavier that what the average hiker carries into Yosemite. However, it survived 45 jumps (two where the lowering cord failed to deploy and I rode it in and landed on it, hard), two trips to the Italian Alps in the dead of winter, visits to the Siani and Turkey in summer, and getting thrown into holes, piled under dozens of similar packs, and whacked around during a couple dozen miscellanous deployments. Try that with a $400 external-frame pack from your local sporting-goods store and see what you get :-)

    It may be that there are "secret" verisons of these in use (as another poster suggested) or there may be versions in R&D. But I'm willing to bet that ruggedizing things is (almost) as much a factor as the bureaucracy...

  7. Competition homepage by aggiefalcon01 · · Score: 2, Informative

    A bit late maybe, but this link oughtta be added in there: it's the homepage for the competition itself:
    http://avdil.gtri.gatech.edu/AUVS/IARCLaunchPoint. html
    Scrolling down in that page provides a list of the teams competing, as well as links to their homepages.

    This link is about this particular event.

    I have to think, though, that a competition with 11 USA teams and 4 Canadian ones is hardly 'international' ...

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