Drone race for Beginners 2025

Introduction

Rules

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10Jv_ahA-4ozJz8-BRSHxayUERvFkb-yh/view

The field

1. At least 11 m long, 5 m wide and 2,5 m high and a safety net. The field ground is a dark coloured carpet or rubber mat.
2. 4 walls (obstacles) with at least 1500×1000 mm (width × height) rectangular holes at different heights. Maximum size of a wall is 1800×2500 mm. The colour of the walls is dark brown or black.
3. a white 50 mm indicative line on the field.

The robot

1. Fly at the height of 0,3 - 3 m. Can have stiff wings, rotors, moving wings or an airship-like design. A maximum speed of 10 m/s.
2. Weight up to 2 kg and its dimensions max 80×80×80 cm³.
3. Maximum of four active and/or passive navigation devices can be used. Navigation

devices must be placed in the corners of the field.

The competition

1. Max 3 people

Local Indoor Positioning and Mapping

Technologies

• Wi-Fi-based positioning system (WPS)
• Bluetooth
• Choke point concepts (RFID / NFC systems)
• Grid concepts
• Angle of arrival
• Time of arrival
• Received signal strength indication
• Radio frequency identification[16] (RFID): passive tags are very cost-effective, but do not support any metrics
• Ultra-wideband (UWB): reduced interference with other devices
• Infrared: previously included in most mobile devices
• Gen2IR (second generation infrared)
• Visible light communication (VLC), as LiFi: can use existing lighting systems
• Ultrasound: waves move very slowly, which results in much higher accuracy

Some methods used

• Pozyx: accurate indoor positioning for Arduino (2015), https://duino4projects.com/pozyx-accurate-indoor-positioning-arduino/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pozyx/pozyx-accurate-indoor-positioning-for-arduino https://www.pozyx.io/
  • ultra-wideband (UWB) radio technology.

• Localino (2017) https://www.instructables.com/Localino-Open-Source-Indoor-Location-System-Arduin/