Team Collaboration

Autonomous Drone Racing in the UTIAS MarsDome Experiment

Autonomous Drone Racing in the UTIAS MarsDome

ADR August 13, 2024

The ADR team is thrilled to announce our latest milestone: the successful autonomous drone racing within the UTIAS MarsDome. As we gear up for the world’s largest autonomous drone racing competition in April 2025 in Abu Dhabi, the MarsDome will serve as our primary training ground. Here, we will refine our strategies, test new innovations, and continue to push the limits of what’s possible in autonomous drone racing.

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Racing Dome Construction Started Drone racing

Racing Dome Construction Started

ADR May 05, 2024

We have started the construction for our new drone racing arena in the UTIAS dome, providing a spacious space for drone racing research.

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Meeting with Prof. Liu Meeting

Meeting with Prof. Liu

ADR March 05, 2024

We meet with Prof. Liu in the Myhal Centre and introduce our recent progresses in learning-based gate detection.

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ADR Racing Gates Assembly

ADR Racing Gates

ADR November 20, 2023

We built the custom ordered ADR racing gates for future drone tests! In addition, we collected images of the gates for training our gate detection algorithm.

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Assemply of ADR Drones Experiment

Assemply of ADR Drones

ADR October 15, 2023

We developed a new FPV drone and conducted a manual flight test at the UTIAS soccer field to assess its performance. During the test, we evaluated the drone’s handling, responsiveness, and stability in a real-world environment, gathering critical data for further refinement of its design and control algorithms.

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