we are organizing the ICRA 2022 DodgeDrone Challenge, where participants
can build navigation algorithms for drones flying through static and
dynamic environments. The winner of the competition will receive an
award of 1,000 USD plus a keynote invitation to the ICRA workshop on
aerial robotics. Our competition will be divided in two stages:
Selections (online), where the teams will submit first versions to
qualify, and Finals (live in Philadelphia), where the best three teams
from the selection round will compete on stage.
Please visit the workshop website for further details:
https://uzh-rpg.github.io/icra2022-dodgedrone/

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Assessment and Important Dates
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We will rank participants’ submissions according to two metrics: (i)
success rate, indicating how many times the drone reaches a specified
goal without crashing, and (ii) time, measuring how fast the drone
arrives at the goal. All evaluation environments are unknown to the
participants.
   *   Submission for selections: 15th May 2022 (AOE)
   *   Finalist teams announced: 18th May 2022 (AOE)
   *   Finals: 27th May 2022 (Live in Philadelphia!)

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The Challenge
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The competition consists of two challenges: (i) navigation in a static
environment, and (ii) navigation in a dynamic environment.
The main challenge of this competition is to develop a vision-based
system that enables a quadrotor to fly in a list of simulated
environments at high speeds, avoiding obstacles.
A demo video can be find at the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkc6JI_gsgs

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Organizers
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   *   Yunlong Song, University and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
   *   Elia Kaufmann, University and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
   *   Leonard Bauersfeld, University and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
   *   Antonio Loquercio, UC Berkeley, USA
   *   Davide Scaramuzza, University and ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Davide Scaramuzza, on behalf of the organizers