The 4th International Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV) Innovation Grand Prix (UAVGP) was sponsored by Goertek Inc. and Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC).
Open-sourced resources: Github: SIA-UAVGP
In rotary-wing UAV(JX) group, the competition is designed as a “Precision Agriculture” scenario –– Fruit trees in a farm are suffering from pests and disease, and the various pests have different resistances against particular pesticides. Agriculture and forestry experts will send rotary-wing UAVs to successfully eradicate all the pests by screening for effective pesticide type and spraying targeted pests.
The drone, called SIA Sparrowhawk, is created using DJI Spreading Wings S1000+ Octocopter as the basic platform, pixhawk as the controller of the drone and Intel NUC as the companion computer to deal with Computer Vision problems and send position and velocity commands.
The MAVROS package enables MAVLink extendable communication between the companion computer (Intel NUC) running ROS and MAVLink enabled autopilots (pixhawk).
My group won the first prize.
