Drones: Build and Fly

Competition Training

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Emirates Skills

• A program under the umbrella of the Abu Dhabi Center

for Technical and Vocational Education and Training

(ACTVET).

• Since 2006, Emirates Skills has been committed to

preparing the national workforce for the achieving the

Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 2030 and UAE Vision 2021.

• Collaborates with major educational entities and

industrial partners in the public and private sector, to

identify the trades needed by the future labor market.

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Emirates Skills

• Since 2013, Khalifa University has actively participated

in the Emirates Technology & Innovation Competition,

during which participants have the opportunity to:

• Measure their skills against those of their peers from other institutes.

• Acquire valuable experience.

• Compete for valuable prizes.

• Engage potential employers.

• Socialize with the other peers.

• Enhance their knowledge in their areas of interest

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Emirates Technology & Innovation

Competition

• The competition consists of five categories

• Cyber Security

• Mobile Application Development

• Game Development

• Drones: Build and Fly

• Electronics: Design and Build

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Important Dates

• Registration deadline : April 15th, 2016.

• Contest will take place from 10th to 12th of May 2016.

• Participants must register before the deadline using the

following link:

• http://events.kustar.ac.ae/estc/registration/

• Contestants must be UAE nationals and registered

either as a high school student (G12) or undergraduate

student.

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Awards

• Winning teams will receive the following

awards:

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General Rules for Coaches

• Contestants must be UAE nationals and registered

either as a high school student (G12) or

undergraduate student

• Coaches are not allowed to intervene during the

judging process.

• For the Drones: Build and Fly Competition, the

total number of teams is 10.

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Drones: Build and Fly

• During this contest, group of students from

different institutions will try to build a Multi-rotor to

specs.

• Teams participating in the competition must deliver

functioning prototypes.

• These prototypes will be competing based on the

missions announced.

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Drones: Build and Fly

• This competition is developed to test the participants’

capabilities and innovation in designing and

implementing state-of-the-art ideas on drones.

• The main objective is to develop a demonstration on

drones that could conceivably be useful for

humanitarian and public services.

• This will enhance the participants’ current skills and

give them opportunity to participate in other future

Drones Competitions.

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Drones: Build and Fly

• The contest will test the following in the participants

• Ability to use hands-on skills in following technical manual

instructions to assemble a drone unit and test it to make sure it flies.

• Apply programming skills to design trajectories for autonomous

drone’s motion.

• Ability to perform several drone maneuvers that are specified by the

organizing committee.

• Participants are expected to be tested in programming skills for

autonomous drone’s flight. For example: Java programming models.

• Participants are expected to pass several challenges that measure

the skills of building and flying the drone.

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Contest Environment

• Drones will be provided by the organizers.

• Only machines and mobile devices provided by the

organizers are allowed.

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Competition

• On the first day of the Competition, all competing

teams will have to build and fly drones according

to certain specifications.

• On the second day of the Competition, the teams

will have complete specific tasks. Each task will

be independently evaluated and the final results

will determine the winner. Each task has specific

set of functionalities.

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Sample Tasks

• Drone Assembly

• Drone Autonomy

• Obstacles Runway

• Site Surveillance

• Balls Sorting

• Drone Vs. Car

• Landing on a moving target

• Entering and exiting buildings

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Drone Assembly

• Follow certain instructions to build a drone in the

least amount of time.

• A complete and functioning drone should be tested

in the presence of judges.

• Challenge

• Speed

• Precision

• Team Work

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Drone Assembly

• Useful links for Coaches:

• A DIY Quadcopter - Assembly - simple, cheap and easy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et5Junw8gAE

• Parrot AR Drone 2.0 - Repair - Remove Central Cross to Replace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nESilOcY3tc

• Easy Drone assembly procedure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOKz3IJ3v0M

• How To: Make A Drone (Quadcopter)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT14Mn_8_Rc

• Tarot 680 Pro Hexacopter : Lower Assembly (Landing Gear and Bottom Plate)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4u_s2q8mXs

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Drone Autonomy

• Having the capability of creating an autonomous

drone is important to prepare the future.

• Task : modify a Java program in order to

• move between two points

• land on a moving target

• follow a certain path

• enter a building

• fight fire

• avoid obstacles, etc.

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Drone Autonomy

• The drone could be programmed

using any computer

programming language.

• Shown on the right is a sample

code structure for autonomous

flight of the drone – for a

maneuver comprising of takeoff,

forward pitch, left rotate, left roll

and landing.

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Obstacles Avoidance

• Task: fly the drone from Point A to Point B while

maneuvering around obstacles.

• The obstacles may be stationary or moving.

• The pilots may be allowed to see only through the

drone camera.

• Scoring of such mission may be based on time or

number of obstacles avoided / hit.

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Other Sample Missions

• Site Surveillance: Teams will have to cruise over a miniature

city and once an emergency occurs in one of the buildings,

pilots should grab pictures as quickly as possible.

• Balls Sorting: Teams will have to implement a mechanism

on their drones which will enable them to sort three of more

balls of different types or sizes.

• Landing on a moving target

• Drone Vs. Ambulance

• Buildings inspection

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Scoring• The winning team is the one who gets the highest total number of

points from the two days of the Drones: Build and Fly Competition.

• The Competition is divided into a number of tasks, each task has

different weightage, depending on task complexity.

• The last hour of the Competition each day will be reserved for

demonstration and assessment.

• Scoring will be done using score sheet provided for each task.

• If two teams obtain the same final score (in case of a tie), then the

team which finished faster (overall), will be considered the winner.

• If the draw persists, a final challenge could decide the eventual

winner.

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Contacts

http://events.kustar.ac.ae/estc/contact-us/

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Drones: Build and Fly Competition, please go to:

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