Drone contest to be held in Armenia on Sunday

YEREVAN, June 1./ARKA/. The training airport in Armenian Arzni town will be hosting a drone contest as a part of ArmRobotics championship on June 2, the Union of Information Technology Enterprises (UITE) reported to ARKA on Saturday.

Five teams are said to participate in the contest. The participants have created unmanned aerial vehicles which survey territories, identify markings, transmit the images in an online mode, jettison freight of up to 300 grams and return to the starting point.

The take-off and landing of the drones can be managed by remote control, or the self-control function can be activated.

The organizer of ArmRobotics are UITE, general sponsor is VivaCell-MTS, technical sponsor-Artin Varuzhan company. The contest is being assisted also by the ministry of defense and Armenian State Engineering University.

ArmRobotics has been held in Armenia since 2008. Its first project was “Line tracking robot.”
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14:47 06/01/2013