Uav Siswa Challenge 2013-2014 - Rules - Release A

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Official Rules - Release A2

CONTENTS

Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 3Challenge 2013-2014: Technical milestones ............................................................................................................................................... 4

Pre-selection ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 4Technical Evaluation ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 5Safety Test ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 61stcompetition round.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 62nd competition round ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 7And the winner is .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 9

Challenge 2013-2014: Technical content ....................................................................................................................................................10The supplied platform ......................................................................................................................................................................................10The sand-balloon-bomb system ..................................................................................................................................................................12The ground Control station ............................................................................................................................................................................12The main Work Packages ................................................................................................................................................................................13

Challenge 2013-2014: Organization...............................................................................................................................................................14Who can compete? ..............................................................................................................................................................................................14Key steps and dates ............................................................................................................................................................................................14Jury ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................16Interactions organizers-competitors ........................................................................................................................................................17

Advices to future competitors (to be read carefully !) ..........................................................................................................................18Miscellaneous Terms & Conditions .................................................................................................................................................................19

Modification Rights ............................................................................................................................................................................................19Donations & Expenses ......................................................................................................................................................................................19Safety .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................19Promotion rights..................................................................................................................................................................................................19Liability .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................19Third Party Rights ...............................................................................................................................................................................................20Intellectual Proprietary Rights .....................................................................................................................................................................20


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INTRODUCTION

DASSAULT AVIATION and CTRM, in partnership with the MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION and

under the MIGHT patronage are organizing the UAV Siswa Challenge, an aerospace student challenge

dedicated to the Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) domain.

Open to every student from a Malaysian university, this challenge intends to give them the

opportunity to work on a motivating project and to explore advanced aerospace topics linked to

concrete industrial subjects of interest, such as advanced flight control functions for autonomous UAV

flight.

Then, the challenge technically focuses on system integration and smart behaviors applied to UAV

systems, with potential fields of application like UAV formation flight or automatic air refueling: so the

final identified target of the whole challenge is the development and the integration of embedded

systems allowing a flying platform to follow automatically and autonomously another flying platform.

To reach this ambitious target, the challenge has been divided in several incremental steps: each step,

lasting around one year, is build around a competition between the participating students team.

The 2013-2014 competition is the first step of the challenge. Its first prize will be a one-week travel in

France, including visits of Rafale companies factories (Dassault Aviation, Thales, Snecma), for the

whole winning team and its supervisor.

This document presents the specification of the 2013-2014 competition.


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CHALLENGE 2013-2014: TECHNICAL MILESTONES

The challenge 2013-2014 is focused on equipment integration and autonomous precise approach of

fixed targets.

It is divided in 5 main technical milestones:

Pre-selection Technical evaluation Safety test 1stround of competition 2nd round of competition

Note: the schedule of these milestones is detailed in the chapter Challenge 2013-2014: Organization

PRE-SELECTION

The pre-selection milestone will take place at the early beginning, just after the registration step. It

will allow the organizers to:

Check, with each team, their understanding of the challenge 2013-2014 and of its potentialdifficulties,

Select the 9 best project proposals that will continue the competition.

This pre-selection is divided in 2 main steps:

1ststep : Pre-selection documentEach team will have to provide a document describing their project for 2013-2014, according

to the template available on the web-site:

o 1 page dedicated to an overall description of their project proposalo Answers to 5 predefined questions,o 10 lines describing their motivations for competing in this challenge

The scoring criteria used to evaluate each pre-selection document will be the followings:

Document - Overall description /10 pts

Document - Predefined questions /15 pts

Document - Motivation /5 pts

TOTAL /30 pts


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The 18 high scored teams will receive an invitation to participate to the second step of the pre-

selection process.

2nd step : Pre-selection presentationEach of the 18 teams will have to perform a short presentation of their project proposal, inclosed session, during 10 min maximum.

Each presentation will be scored between 0 and 10.

Each of the 18 project proposals will then obtain a final scoring as following:

Document /30 pts

Presentation /10 pts

TOTAL /40 pts

The projects corresponding to the 9 best final scores will be selected: each selected team will then

receive all the hardware components needed to build an equipped hexacopter for the competition

(see more details in chapter Challenge 2013-2014: Technical content).

Notes:

A maximum of 2 teams from the same university could be pre-selected. The pre-selection is also a commitment, from each selected team, to participate to the final

competition.

TECHNICAL EVALUATION

This milestone will take place in the last 3 months before the final competition. It will allow theorganizers to:

Evaluate the project of each team from a technical and theoretical point of view, Check if this project is able to perform its first preliminary ground tests

For each team, this technical evaluation will then be made in 2 steps:

A formal presentation, performed in open session, with :o slides during 20 min,o live ground tests during 10 min

A technical documentation, with a full and complete description of the project


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The scoring criteria used to evaluate each project will be the followings:

Technical solution (innovation, performances, robustness,) /15 pts

Ability to demonstrate the system running on ground /10 pts

Efficiency of the presentation and the documentation /5 pts

TOTAL /30 pts

SAFETY TEST

For safety reason, a prior requirement has been set up: each team must be able to shutdown its

platform immediately and on request, in order to ensure the full safety of the competitors and theattendees during the competition.

This test will be performed preliminary to the real competition. In case of failure, the team wont be

allowed to participate to the other competition rounds.

Notes:

A proposed (but not mandatory) solution could be to shutdown automatically the platformwhen the radio remote control is turned off (similar to a loss of radio signal)

The provided platform is quite fragile: dont test your safety process in real condition, but withsomeone (or something) holding the platform (at very low altitude and very low power !).

1ST COMPETITION ROUND

The scenario of the 1st competition round will be the following: a target, represented by a 20m ground

circle centered on supplied GPS coordinates, is known before the start of the flight. The platform,

carrying a sand-balloon-bomb , follows a planed trajectory, and drops autonomously its sand-

balloon-bomb on this target. The plateform continues to follow the planned trajectory and lands at

the starting point.


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Complementary to this overall description, the scenario is also defined by:

the flying area will be outdoor, with a maximum size of 100m x 100m, the altitude of flight will be from 1m minimum to 20m maximum, the trajectory waypoints and the target GPS coordinates to be used for this competition round

will be provided to the competitors on the day of the competition.

Each team will have 2 attempts per round (only the best one will be taken into account for the

scoring).

The scoring for 1stcompetition round will be based on:

Time to perform the whole trajectory, according to the following table :1st

(fastest)2nd 3rd 4th 5th

6th

(slowest)

30 pts 25 pts 22 pts 20 pts 18 pts 17 pts

The whole trajectory could be traced on ground in real-time, though data-link (if not, the scorefor this round is divided by 2)

The target has been hit (if not, the score for this round is divided by 2)The maximum score for the 1stcompetition round is 30 points.

A scoring example for 1stcompetition round:

Team

Time to

perform thetrajectory

Trajectory

traced onground

Target hit

Scoring

according timeto perform traj

Final 1st round

scoring, taking intoaccount penalties

Team A 1 min. Yes Yes 25 pts 25 pts

Team B 30 s. Yes No 30 pts 15 pts

Team C 2 min. No Yes 22 pts 11 pts

2ND COMPETITION ROUND

The scenario of the 2nd competition round will be the following: along a planned trajectory, two

targets, represented by a red cross centered on supplied GPS coordinates, are identified but

considered as unknown at the beginning of the flight.

During the flight, at a predefined time after a predefined waypoint, the system will receive the GPS

center coordinates of a target. The platform will automatically re-plan the trajectory, incorporating

this new GPS waypoint.


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A camera has been integrated in the platform, allowing a real-time video flow to be sent to the ground.

This video flow will be then post-processed to give more accurate target direction to the platform, in

order to be able to perform a precise approach to the target.

The system will autonomously drop a sand-balloon-bomb as close as possible of the target center,

and get back to the trajectory.

After the releases on the 2 targets, the platform will continue to follow the planned trajectory and will

land at the starting point.

Complementary to this overall description, the scenario is also defined by:

the flying area will be outdoor, with a maximum size of 100m x 100m, the red cross target will be represented on ground by 2 perpendicular red strip of 5mx20cm, the altitude of flight will be from 1m minimum to 20m maximum, the GPS target coordinates will be sent manually from ground station, at a predefined time

after the passage of the platform through a defined waypoint,

the trajectory waypoints to be used for this competition round will be provided to thecompetitors on the day of the competition.

Each team will have 2 attempts per round (only the best one will be taken into account for thescoring).

The scoring for 2nd competition round will be based on:

Time to perform the whole trajectory, according to the following table:1st

(fastest)

2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th

(slowest)

16 pts 14 pts 12 pts 10 pts 9 pts 8 pts


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Distance between each target center and the launched sand-balloon-bomb, according to thefollowing table:

1st

(shortest

distance)

2nd 3rd 4th 5th

6th

(longest

distance)

Bomb not

launched

12 pts 10 pts 8 pts 6 pts 5 pts 4 pts 0 pts

The real-time video flow is working (if not, the score for this round is divided by 2)The maximum score for the 2nd competition round is 40 points.

A scoring example for 2nd competition round:

Team Time to

perform

the traj

Distance

to 1st

target

Distance

to 2nd

target

real-time

video

flow

working

Score for

time to

perform

traj

Score for

distance

to 1st

target

Score for

distance

to 1st

target

Final 2nd round

scoring, taking

into account

penaltiesTeam

A

1 min. 50 cm 20 cm Yes 14 pts 12 pts 12 pts 38 pts

Team

B

30 s. 10 m 3m No 16 pts 8 pts 10 pts 17 pts

Team

C

2 min. 3 m 4m Yes 12 pts 10 pts 8 pts 30 pts

AND THE WINNER IS

The final scoring of each team will take into account the scores obtained though:

Technical evaluation /30 pts

1st competition round /30 pts

2nd competition round /40 pts

TOTAL /100 pts

The competition winner will be the team with the higher final score and will receive the first prize.

The first prize for the challenge 2013-2014 is a one-week travel in France, including travels between

Kuala Lumpur and Paris, hotels in France, and visits of Rafale companies factories (Dassault Aviation,

Thales, Snecma), for the whole winning team and its supervisor.

Each competitor will receive an official certificate testifying to their participation in the challenge.


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CHALLENGE 2013-2014: TECHNICAL CONTENT

THE SUPPLIED PLATFORM

A set of on-the-shelf components, allowing to build a full hexacopter for the competition, will beprovided by the organizers to each selected team (after pre-selection phase), including:


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Note: pictures are only for illustration purpose

All these provided components have to be assembled and integrated by the competitors.

Description Quantity

Battery Charger B6 Original 5A 1

Remote Control Tx/Rx TH9X (or equivalent) 1

Battery Lipo for radio 2650mah 1

Servo GS-9025MG 1

Flight Controller All In One v1.0 AIOP CRIUS 1

Ultrasonic height module 1

GPS Receiver Multiwii MWC FC CN-06 CRIUS 1

Telemetry 3DR 433mhz 1

CCD Camera 1/3 420L Sony 12V 1

Video Transmitter/Receiver - 1,2ghz 800mw 8 chanels 1

Plugs 3S 1

Analog Video -> USB Easycap 1

Battery Zippy 1000maH 3S1P 15C 1


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A component could be replaced by another one, or some additional equipment could be integrated on

the hexacopter: these adaptations must be explained and justified during the technical evaluation and

in the final technical documentation.

Note: any other device and spare parts wont be supplied to the teams by the organizers .

THE SAND-BALLOON-BOMB SYSTEM

To perform the competition, each team will have to design and integrate its own sand-balloon-bomb

system in its hexacopter, including:

a storage system to carry 2 sand-balloon-bombs a dropping system to release one sand-balloon-bomb on demand embedded algorithms to release autonomously a sand-balloon-bomb when the hexacopter

arrives above a target, which means:

o in a 20m circle identified by its center GPS coordinates for the 1st competition round,o as close as possible of a 5m ground red cross for the 2nd

competition round.

The carrying sand-balloon-bombs are balloons filled with 50g of sand.

A set of 25 empty balloons will be provided to each team.

Note: these sand-balloon-bombs will be just released by a dropping system, and not launched as a

missile by an ejection system.

THE GROUND CONTROL STATION

Several free and user-friendly desktop utilities are available on internet, proposing:

Hexacopter setting-up utilities

Point-and-click mission planner,allowing ground trajectory

planning and in flight trajectory re-

planning (through wireless

dispatch of new waypoints)


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full ground station, allowing real-time flight following

The suggested desktop utilities are: APM Mission Planner or QGroundControl (some internet linkswill be available on the challenge web-site).

THE MAIN WORK PACKAGES

WORK PACKAGE TARGET

Project analysis for pre-selection Pre-selection

Hexacopter setting-up and first flightsSafety Test

Automatic safety system

Equipment Integration:

GPS integration Sonic-altimeter integration Data-Link integration

1st Competition

RoundSand-balloon-bomb system:

Design of the sand-balloon-bomb system Integration of the system Autonomous release of a sand-balloon-bomb (on GPS

coordinates)

Real-time video flow between hexacopter and ground station:

Camera integration Video signal emitter integration (EM compatibility issues) Ground video reception 2nd Competition

RoundGround processing of the real-time video flow to give accurate target direction

to the flying system

Precise autonomous release of a sand-balloon-bomb (based on video

processing)

Ground and flight tests


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CHALLENGE 2013-2014: ORGANIZATION

WHO CAN COMPETE?

Participating competitors must be full-time students registered in a Malaysian university and must

still be enrolled in their university at the time of the competition (1st trimester 2014). No specificaeronautical specialization is required.

Each team should be composed of 3 to 4 students of the same university, covering various skills:

Aeromodeling Automatism Embedded software development Electronics

Every team registration will have to be officially validated by a representative of the team's university

(professor, lecturer, etc). This representative will become the official supervisor of the team.

Only these registered 3-4 students, under the responsibility of their supervisor, will be allowed to

participate to the competition days (if the team is selected after the pre-selection phase).

Note: A team could have the need to replace one of its members: This change should be proposed and

justified to the organizers for approval.

KEY STEPS AND DATES

STEP DATES

Challenge official launch January 2013

End of registration 1stMarch 2013

Pre-selection

29 March 2013

10 April 2013

18 April 2013

23 April 2013

Technical Evaluation11 December 2013

31 January 2014

Competition 25-26-27 February 2014

Award ceremony 20 March 2014

1st Prize 2014


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Depending on circumstances, these dates could be adjusted by the organizers. In this case, all the

competitors will be informed by specifically dedicated emails.

Challenge official launch

The challenge is officially launched on January 2013.

The challenge website (www.UAVSiswaChallenge.com) is then open for:

downloading the full 2013 challenge specification and the challenge rules, on-line registration

Registration

Each team is required to register for the challenge: the final deadline for registration is the 1st of

March 2013. Late or incomplete registrations will not be entertained.

The registration will have to be made online, through the challenge website

(www.UAVSiswaChallenge.com). Some details must be provided, about the participating students

(max 4), the supervising teacher, the university,

Each registered team will receive, in due time, a username and a password to be able to log on the

online forum.

At this stage, there is no limit in number of participating teams, and a same university could register

several teams.

Pre-selection

The pre-selection is divided in 2 steps (see Pre-selection in chapter Challenge 2013-2014: for

more details about the technical content of this phase):

Paper stepEach registered team will have to deliver to the organizers its completed pre-selection

document on the 29th of March at the latest. The template of this document is available online,

in the challenge website (www.UAVSiswaChallenge.com).

The 18 high scored teams will receive, on the 10 th of April, an invitation to participate to the

second step of the pre-selection process.

Presentation stepEach team will perform a short presentation of its project proposal on the 18th of April 2013,

in Rafale International office, KL.


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The announcement of the 9 pre-selected teams will be officially performed on the 23th of April 2013,

at a place still to be defined (the definite location will be transmitted to the competitors in due time).

At this occasion, the selected teams will receive their hexacopter to pursue the competition.

Note: At this stage, a maximum of 2 teams per university could be pre-selected.

Technical Evaluation

The technical evaluation is divided in 2 steps (see Technical Evaluation in chapter Challenge 2013-

2014: Technical milestones for more details about the technical content of this phase):

Formal presentationEach team will have perform the technical presentation of its project on the 11th of December

2013, at a place still to be defined (the definite location will be transmitted to the competitors

in due time).

Technical documentationEach team will have to deliver to the organizers the full technical documentation of its project

on the 31th of January 2014 at the latest.

Competition (3 days)

The final competition will last 3 days, from the 25th to the 27th of February 2014, at a place still to be

defined (the definite location will be transmitted to the competitors in due time).

The Day 1 (25 February) will be dedicated to installation, free flight tests and demonstration of safetyprocedure by each team (mandatory to participate to the Day 2)

The Day 2 (26 February) will be dedicated to the 2 competition rounds.

The Day 3 (27 February) is a spare day, in case of bad weather condition or any unexpected event

during the first 2 days.

Award ceremony

An award ceremony will be organized on the 20 th of March 2014: all the participating students will beinvited to receive their official certificate and the winning team of the challenge 2013-2014 will be

officially announced.

JURY

For every evaluation and during the competition, the challenge jury will be composed of designated

experts representing the organizing partners:

Dassault Aviation


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CTRM Ministry of Higher Education

All jurys decisions will be taken by common agreement and shall be considered as final.

INTERACTIONS ORGANIZERS-COMPETITORS

The language to be used for the whole challenge is the English language: every email, question on the

website, document, presentation should be made in English.

The main vector of interactions between organizers and competitors will be the website dedicated to

the challenge, www.UAVSiswaChallenge.com, with:

download page (for technical specification, rules and goodies like flyer) online registration page forum for questions/answers (access limited to competitors & organizers) news page

A specific email address will be available to send documents to organizers (and to ask for very specific

requests, such as team member replacement).


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ADVICES TO FUTURE COMPETITORS (TO BE READ CAREFULLY!)

Dont forget to register! The deadline is defined in the chapter Challenge 2013-2014: Organization.

Take care of the pre-selection phase: dont wait the deadline to register and to start to fulfill the

document for the pre-selection! And dont forget: only the 9 best answers will receive the hexacopterto continue the competition

Dont hesitate to use internet: a huge international community is dealing with hexacopter topics, and

you dont need to re-invent what has been done elsewhere

Dont hesitate to ask any question on the forum, even if it seems silly or obvious : its better to ask,

rather than to go in the wrong direction!

The hexacopter is not a toy, and is quite fragile: be careful when performing youre first flight tests to

tune the engine controllers, and during your safety tests. The best option is to make these tests with

someone holding the hexacopter (and without putting too much power !)


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MISCELLANEOUS TERMS & CONDITIONS

MODIFICATION RIGHTS

The organizers reserve the right to adapt and to modify any articles of the current rules along thecompletion of the challenge. All the competing teams will be immediately informed in case of such a

modification.

DONATIONS & EXPENSES

Each of the 9 pre-selected team will receive components as described in chapter Challenge 2013-

2014: Technical content. All these equipment will remain the property of the university after the

competition.

Each team will be responsible for all other costs and expenses associated with participating in the

competition i.e. other component, spare parts, travels, hotels/accommodations, etc

SAFETY

Each participating teams must comply with all safety rules set by the organizers. The rules are put

together in the interest of everyone safety and security.

The organizers reserve the right to disqualify a team for not complying with key safety rules

PROMOTION RIGHTS

By participating in the UAV Siswa Challenge, participants agree that the organizers (Dassault Aviation,

CTRM, and the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education) have the right to use names, likenesses and

images for publicity or materials promoting this event without compensation, except where

prohibited by law.

LIABILITY

The organizers (Dassault Aviation, CTRM, and the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education) and their

parent, affiliate and subsidiary companies and all of their respective officers, directors, employees,

shareholders, representatives and agents shall have no liability and will be held harmless by team

members and universities for any claim, action, liability, loss, injury or damage to any team member,

university and/or any other person or entity, including personal injury or death to any person or

damage to personal or real property, due in whole or in part, directly or indirectly by reason of


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participation in this challenge, or the acceptance, possession, use or misuse of a stipend and/or a prize

(including any travel or related activity).

THIRD PARTY RIGHTS

By entering, each team warrants and represents that the developments performed on its hexacopterare original and do not infringe, defame or otherwise violate the rights and/or property of any third

party; do not violate any laws or ordinances; and do not utilise, use or infringe the property of any

third party including the property and rights of another team without express permission to do so.

Each team further warrants that the possession, exploitation, use or distribution by that team of any

intellectual property including without limitation patents, copyrights, designs, trade or service marks,

whether or not registered, shall not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property right of any

third party. Each team shall indemnify the organizers (Dassault Aviation, CTRM, and the Malaysian

Ministry of Higher Education) against any loss or damage suffered or incurred by the organizers as a

result of any claim that the use by a team thereof infringes the intellectual property right of any third

party.

INTELLECTUAL PROPRIETARY RIGHTS

The universities will remain the sole owner of the original developments made by their teams during

the challenge.

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