International Competitions
The ROS package was developed for the MED'18 (the 26th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation) competitions took place in Zadar, Croatia, June 19-22, 2018. Below, are the details of the competition:
Aerial robotics control and perception challenge
This challenge is supported by robotics@fer.hr, an organization of robotics laboratories at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia.
Wind Farm inspection
In the first stage (stage A), teams will compete in three tasks, all performed in a simulation environment, using the Robot Operating System (ROS) and Gazebo simulator:
- hover under wind conditions for 2 minutes (RMS will be used to rank the teams);
- localize the plane of rotation of a wind generator (time will be used to rank the teams);
- detect up to 5 blade defects (number of successful detections will be used to rank the teams).
First three teams will be promoted to the second stage (stage B) and will win a chance to apply their algorithms on real platforms and compete during the conference.
The second stage will be held at the conference venue, using the Parrot Bebop 2 platform in a mockup wind farm environment.
The winner of the competition is team Crobots from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb. The team members were: Filip Zorić, Bojan Spahija, and Lovro Marković. The second prize has been won by the Teamsannio team from the Faculty of Electronical Engineering for the Automation and Telecomunication, University of Sannio (here the link to the conference report).
