A group photo of the award winning team and their supervisor (from left to right) Mr Li-yu Lo, Ms Yuanbo Xue, Mr Wenyu Yang, Prof. Chih-Yung Wen, Mr Zheng Tan, and Mr Bailun Jiang.
We are proud to announce that a team of AAE students recently won the first runner-up prize at the 2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS'24) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Competition held in Chania, Crete, Greece. The competition was inspired by the scenario of robots in agriculture. It challenged participants to develop autonomous UAVs capable of accurately counting fruits in an agricultural setting. It was divided into two stages - a simulation stage in an indoor farm environment. The goal was to count the number of selected plant variety among all the plants in the garden beds using UAV, followed by the final stage with an outdoor scenario.
Led by Prof. Chih-Yung Wen, Chair Professor of Aeronautical Engineering and Head of the Department, the student team comprising Mr Wenyu Yang, Mr Zheng Tan, Ms Yuanbo Xue, Mr Li-yu Lo, and Mr Bailun Jiang. They competed against 24 other teams from 20 regions around the world. The teams are required to navigate their UAVs, equipped with a front facing cameras, slightly pitched-down 3D LiDAR, GPS receiver, IMU and Pixhawk controller, to identify and quantify different coloured fruits. The top six teams from Hong Kong, South Korea, Brazil, India, Turkey, and Poland advanced to the final competition. The mission was to accurately calculate the number of fruits based on the data package released by the organizing committee, while minimizing energy consumption.
Congratulations to the awardees and participants!
About ICUAS’24
ICUAS’24 UAV is an international competition for research students, co-hosted by Technical University of Crete, the University of Denver, IEEE, IEEE Control Systems Society, IEEE Robotics & Automation Society, and the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems Association, Inc. (ICUAS). It provided an invaluable opportunity for students to showcase their engineering expertise on the global stage and benchmark their skills against the brightest minds in the field of Unmanned Aerial Systems.