January 14, 2012 - 11:32 AMT
UAV robotics contest to be held in Armenia

In the framework of Armenian Robots Open Championship (ArmRobotics), the Union of Information Technologies Enterprises (UITE) announces registration for the Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) contest.

According to UITE press release, the contest participants are requested to design robots which must study the area during the flight, recognize navigation signs and send pictures of the area online, find the specially assigned tee, flop down a burden of 300 grams and fly back to its original place of flight.

The robots may have any type of construction including: VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing); CTOL (Conventional Take-Off and Landing); STOVL (Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing) etc.

The take-off and landing can be non-autonomous.

ArmRobotics is established by UITE, the main sponsor is VivaCell-MTS, technical equipment was provided by Artin Varoujan company, supporters are the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia and Microsoft Innovation Center of Armenia.