The ICUAS UAV Competition is here again!
This year, we are going from one to multiple UAVs! Coordination, planning, detection and a couple of Crazyflies await new challengers! To register for the competition, use the following link:
https://forms.gle/mk2X5vgsXGujEEYZA


As always, rulebook, code and simulation setup is available on Github:
https://github.com/larics/icuas25_competition

To contact the competition organizing crew, please use Issues/Discussions on the competition repo.

Important dates (subject to change):
January 25th, 2025: Initial submission – team registration closed
February 20th, 2025: Debug submission
February 28th, 2025: Deadline to upload solutions

Top teams will be invited to further develop and showcase their solution at the Conference!

Additional Information
In this year’s edition of the UAV Competition, the teams need to deploy a team of UAVs in an urban environment to locate and identify threats. The UAVs deploy from the base and need to find and identify several targets in a known environment. Since some of the threats may interfere with communication links between agents, the team is required to keep constant communication between the base and all agents in the system (as shown in Fig. 1.). 

Figure 1

The team of UAVs is required to locate and identify an unknown number of targets and report the location of the threat to the base. While searching, the battery of each UAV is draining and each UAV can go back to base to recharge, but the system needs to remain connected even with one or more UAVs charging. The UAVs to be used are Bitcraze Crazyflies, running through SITL paradigm to facilitate easier transfer to the finals in the arena at ICUAS’25.

The fourth edition of the ICUAS UAV Competition has drawn interest of 26 teams from India, Hong Kong, China, Brazil, USA, Mexico, Armenia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Czechia, Poland, Italy, Croatia, and South Korea. Following the January 29th deadline for submitting a proof-of-concept solution, 15 teams have committed to the simulation stage of the competition, which ends on February 28th, 2025. Alongside the teams and their UAVs, the LARICS group at the University of Zagreb is working on preparing evaluation scenarios and point scoring scheme that will be used to decide the finalist teams. As is now a long-standing ICUAS tradition, top teams from the simulation stage will be invited to Charlotte to showcase their work in the arena at the Conference. While the competitors and the University of Zagreb crew are busy with the simulation stage of the competition, the group led by Artur Wolek at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte is already working on the competition arena at the conference venue.