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The Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) is a presti-
gious competition, aimed at furthering the state-of-the-art in the field of autonomous
robotics. This thesis presents my part of the solution to one of the tasks in the
MBZIRC 2020 competition, which landed us a second place in Challenge 1 and a
first place in the Grand Challenge of the competition.
Specifically, this thesis focuses on the balloon popping task, which had to be
solved quickly and robustly in order to compete with systems from other expert
robotic teams from the whole world.
In this task, a team of cooperating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) had to au-
tonomously search and destroy balloons, placed in a designated arena, as fast as
possible. A software and hardware overview of the used UAV platform is presented
and the detection, estimation and planning algorithms of our winning solution are
described in detail. Evaluation of the described methods on data from the competi-
tion is presented. |
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