QuetzalC++ (INAOE): 1st Place in IROS 2017 Autonomous Drone Racing and 4th Place in IMAV 2017

The QuetzalC++ team from the Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica Optica y Electronica (INAOE) participated in two international competitions ranking 1st Place in the Autonomous Drone Racing competition (ADR) of the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2017 and 4th in the International Micro Air Vehicle competition (IMAV) 2017. A description of the system developed for these competitions was published in the papers: 1. H. Moon, J. Martinez-Carranza, S. Li, Michael Ozo, C. De Wagter, G. de Croon, D. Falanga, M. Faessler, T. Cieslewski, A. Simovic, D. Scaramuzza, S. Hwang, S. Jung, H. Shim, H. Kim, M. Hyuk Park, Tsz-Chiu Au, Geonuk Lee, Si Jung Kim. Challenges and Implemented Technologies Used in Autonomous Drone Racing. Intelligent Service Robotics. January, 2019, Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11370-018-00271-6 2. L. Oyuki Rojas-Perez, J. Martinez-Carranza. Metric Monocular SLAM and Colour Segmentation for Multiple Obstacle Avoidance in Autonomous Flight. IEEE 4th Workshop on Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems (RED-UAS). Linköping, Sweden. October, 2017. 3. A. A. Cabrera Ponce, J. Martinez-Carranza. A Vision-Based Approach for Autonomous Landing. IEEE 4th Workshop on Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems (RED-UAS). Linköping, Sweden. October, 2017. QuetzalC++ Team Members: Jose Martinez-Carranza (Team Leader), L. Oyuki Rojas-Perez, Aldrich A. Cabrera-Ponce Roberto Munguia-Silva IROS 2017 ADR video taken from https://youtu.be/y1DvYkPCnmM http://ccc.inaoep.mx/~carranza/ http://ccc.inaoep.mx/~Quetzalcuauhtli/ https://twitter.com/josemtzcarranza https://twitter.com/QuetzalCmx