The Competition
From the abstract of the IARC 6th Mission Scenario Document:
The 6th mission for the International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC) will move the challenge to yet a higher level of autonomous aerial robotic behavior. The past two decades have seen a revolution in navigation technologies for operations in the open, but there is still much to be done in the area of indoor navigation. The goal is to create a small aerial robot capable of fully autonomous flight through a confined environment. In performing this task, the state-of-the-art in indoor navigation, vehicle design and integration, and flight control will be pushed to a higher level.
The 5th Mission of the IARC required collegiate teams to create fully autonomous flying robots capable of negotiating a rather sterile environment. The new 6th Mission picks up where the 5th Mission left off by demonstrating the fully autonomous aerial robotic behaviors necessary to more rapidly negotiate culturally-cluttered confined internal spaces of a structure once it has been penetrated by an air vehicle, and intelligently interact with physical items encountered.
The mission is based upon the fictitious matter of highly sensitive information highlighting plans to sabotage a global company's finances. A covert organization must develop a UAV that can penetrate the building and retrieve the sensitive documents, which are stored on a flash drive.
For more details, please see the official rules.
