FLY EAGLE

The Team Fly Eagle includes members from Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) and Khalifa University of Science and Technology. BIT has extensive experience in UAV. From overall design to aerodynamic design, structural design, and final production and processing, a variety of UAVs have been designed and developed by BIT according to different mission requirements, like FL5, F20, and so on. In multi-UAV cooperative control, BIT has developed technologies about distributed multi-UAV formation control and multi-UAV cooperative search algorithm for moving targets.

The BIT team is a global leader in research on intelligent unmanned systems, tackling various bottleneck robot technologies, and has proven excellence in robotics competitions. Some of the achievements are summarized below:

MBZIRC 2017 - First in Challenge 1. The challenge was to autonomously land a UAV on a moving vehicle, under real-world conditions including strong wind and light flare.
IMAV 2017 - Third place in the "Autonomous Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance in a Satellite-Free Environment" event at the International Micro and Small UAV Competition.
2018 - BIT won the UK International Student Aircraft Design Competition in weighted flight.
2019 - BIT won the overall champion of ICRA RoboMaster International Challenge on Artificial Intelligence.
2019 - Invited to participate in the Swiss Drone Innovation Week.
MBZIRC 2020 – First in Challenge 1 and the only team to achieve the full score. The challenge was for multiple UAVs to collaborate to capture a ball attached with another UAV and to puncture 5 balloons on the ground.
2021 - BIT won ICCV "Drone Tracking" Challenge International Champion and Best Paper Award.
Khalifa University has profound research capabilities in marine robotics. It has a state-of-the-art marine pool equipped with an underwater tracking system with wave and stream generation facility. This allows testing of advance control strategies even in the presence of external disturbances. This facility will be used for developing the testbed of the MBZIRC challenge. Besides, the Khalifa University team has excelled in the field of grasping and manipulation in two-fold ways – the design and development of compliant manipulators, actuators, and end effectors. Khalifa University is one of the internationally leading teams in grasping algorithms and tactile sensing based on neuromorphic event-based cameras. Moreover, the Khalifa University team is working on developing end-to-end algorithms for grasping in a cluttered environment.