We are happy to announce that after three days of integration, tests and competition flights, the defending champions, team CVAR from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Escuela Técnica Superior Ingenieros Industriales ETSII, Spain (David Perez Saura, Pedro Arias Perez, Miguel Fernandez Cortizas, Ines Prieto Centeno and Rafael Perez Segui) won the first place. Congratulations team CVAR!

The competition was divided into three benchmarks:

  • FBM1 – pose estimation measured via RMSE between the estimate and the pose measured by Optitrack
  • FBM2 – defect detection measure via Critical Success Index over 50 images
  • TBM1 – navigation and inspection in unknown environment with points awarded for reaching waypoints and detecting defects in the arena

Rankings for FBM1 were:

  1. RAS Lab
  2. CVAR
  3. UMIC
  4. Carrot
  5. AiRo Lab
  6. SDCN Lab

Rankings for FBM2 were:

  1. AiRo Lab
  2. UMIC
  3. CVAR
  4. Carrot
  5. SDCN Lab
  6. RAS Lab

Rankings for TBM1 were:

  1. CVAR
  2. AiRo Lab
  3. UMIC
  4. SDCN Lab
  5. Carrot

Overall and final ranking for the ICUAS’23 UAV Competition is:

  1. CVAR
  2. AiRo Lab
  3. UMIC
  4. SDCN Lab
  5. Carrot

Congratulations to all teams for great work and hope to see you next year!