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The "ultimate collegiate challenge" - 19th year - new "5th Mission."
The next event will be held from 20 - 24 July, 2009. The venue is the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.
$10,000
Competition Countdown:16 Days ADVANCING THE STATE-OF-THE-ART IN AERIAL ROBOTICS YET AGAIN
During the 4th Mission, teams had already demonstrated all of the required aerial robotic behaviors mandated in the IARC Rules, except being able to demonstrate all of these behaviors seamlessly in under 15 minutes... however that was considered by the Organizer and Judges to be inevitable and no longer a significant challenge.
The new 5th Mission will essentially pick up where the 4th Mission left off. The 5th Mission requires a fully autonomous aerial subvehicle - launched from a "mother ship" - to penetrate a building and negotiate the more complex interior space containing hallways, small rooms, obstacles, and dead ends in order to search for a designated target without the aid of global-positioning navigational aids, and relay pictures back to a monitoring station some distance from the building.
The 5th Mission will continue to adhere to the Competition's 18-year practice of posing tasks that cannot be completed with current technology and skills. As with previous missions, nothing within the World military or industrial arsenal of robots will be able to complete the proposed mission at the time the guidelines are released.
