18:13 | 13.01.12 | News | 2307

“Unmanned aerial vehicle” contest to be held in Armenia for the first time

Yerevan/Mediamax/. 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.

The participants of this contest must design and prepare robots which must study the area during the flight, recognize the 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, UITE informs.
  
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.

Participants have to register at before 12/03/12. The main sponsor of the contest is VivaCell-MTS, technical equipment was provided by Artin Varoujan company, supporters are The Minister of Defence of the Republic of Armenia and Microsoft Innovation Center of Armenia.