The Aerospace Robotics Competition is a high school drone competition. Teams are asked to carry out a variety of design tasks from designing autonomously released mechanisms to developing flight plans and executing them on the drone. The Fall competition required the drones’ use of machine vision to identify and pop in proper sequence color balloons tacked to a vertical wall. See the video here: https://youtu.be/_tkqpoZ4E4A

The ARC website contains a wealth of information on building and programming autonomous drones. Check out the following links if you want to take your drone skills to the next level.

Main website: https://www.aeroroboticscomp.com/

ARC Tutorials: https://arc-tutorials.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Documentation for the ArUco machine vision makers used in the 2022 competition: https://docs.opencv.org/3.2.0/d5/dae/tutorial_aruco_detection.html