IARC 2019 Countdown:
Introduction

Beyond those technologies and behaviors that have been demonstrated during past missions , the following are emphasized:
1. Man-machine interaction (non-electronic command and control)
2. Fused sensory enhancement of a human operator by a fleet of aerial robots
3. Swarm interaction
4. Aerial target designation
5. Head-to-head interaction with opposing aerial robots

Overview

Organization
Organizer

Beijing Drone Your Dream Technology Co.,Ltd.

Sponsors

Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Foundation/RoboNation

Chinese Society of Aeronautics & Astronautics (CSAA)

Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence

Chinese Association of Automation

Beihang University

Chinese Society of Aeronautics Education

Co-sponsors

Unmanned Aircraft Systems Committee of Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Technical Committee on Guidance,Navigation and Control(TCGNC),CSAA

Science and Technology on Aircraft Control Laboratory

Technical Committee on Unmanned Aerial Systems Autonomous Control, CAA

Science and TechnologyWorking Committee of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence

Beijing Society Of Aeronautics And Astronautics

Beijing Young Flyer Education Technology Co., Ltd.

Organizing committee

顾Director: Lin Zuoming Liu Gaozhuo Robert C.Michelson

Executive Director:Yao Junchen

Vice director: Wang Yingxun, Zhao Shuanghong, Duan Haibin, Qiao Junfei, Xiao Hong, HU Qiang.

Committee member: Cai Zhendong , Cai Zhihao , Dai Qiyong, Fu Heng, Jia Tao, Li Zhiwei, Nie Rong, Peng Tao, Tang Renlin, Wei Chen, Wang Shaoping, Xu Hongbo, Ye Nan, Yu Naigong, Yu Youcheng,Zhang Nan, Zhou Meiting, Zhu Ni, Zhao Xiaolan.

RefereeCommittee

Cao Yunfeng

Che Jun

Gao Qingji

Tang Daquan

Cai Zhihao

Wu Lirong

Zhang Ju’en

Robert C. Michelson

Wang Yingxun

Duan Haibin

Review
  • MISSION 1

    The ability to fully autonomously fly and navigate without inertial systems was demonstrated using a triad of carrier wave GPS antennas/receivers, as was the ability to pick up objects in one location and deposit them in another.

  • MISSION 2

    Autonomous aerial mapping, millimeter target identification, and object retrieval was demonstrated using differential GPS technology for navigation.

  • MISSION 3

    The ability to perform an autonomous search and rescue mission was demonstrated, incorporating location and discrimination between injured survivors and the dead, avoidance of real threats to the aerial robot (15 meter flames, water geysers) in a cluttered, smoke obscured environment, and mapping of a disaster scene.

  • MISSION 4

    Autonomous aerial robots demonstrated the ability to fly long distances (3km), find a village, find a specific building in that village, identify all of the valid openings(open windows/doors) in that building, and insert an autonomous sub-robot into that opening.

  • MISSION 5

    The Mission 4 goals were extended to assume that the autonomous sub-robot was able to fly, and that it needed to map the interior of the building and locate an object. SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) techniques were used to achieve this mission.

  • MISSION 6

    The autonomous indoor flight scenario was further refined and completed by requiring a fully autonomous aerial robot to map the unknown interior of a building, avoid or defeat security measures, read and interpret printed directions on the walls (written in Arabic) to locate a specific room and remove a small object while replacing it with another like object before rapidly exiting the building as part of a simulated espionage mission. These mission goals were demonstrated during August of 2013 through the use of SLAM techniques and object recognition.

  • MISSION 7

    Mission 7 will challenge teams to demonstrate three new behaviors that have never been at tempted in any of the past six IARC missions. First, “interaction between aerial robots and moving objects (specifically, autonomous ground robots). Second, navigation in a sterile environment with no external navigation aids such as GPS or large stationary points of reference such as walls. Third, interaction between competing autonomous air vehicles.

  • MISSION 8

    Beyond those technologies and behaviors that have been demonstrated during past missions , the following are emphasized:
    1. Man-machine interaction (non-electronic command and control)
    2. Fused sensory enhancement of a human operator by a fleet of aerial robots
    3. Swarm interaction
    4. Aerial target designation
    5. Head-to-head interaction with opposing aerial robots