EMAV: The ASL Maverick wins the 2nd place and impresses the jury

On September 17 2009, a team of five ASL members (Davide Scaramuzza, Stephan Weiss, Laurent Kneip, Ming Liu, and Daniel Eberli) participated in the annual European Micro Aerial Vehicle Competition, which regularly takes place in Delft (Netherlands).
The competition consisted in having a small helicopter entering and exiting from small apartment in a fully autonomous manner.
Our team, named ETH-Maverick, was the only autonomous team over the 8 participating teams!
Furthermore, it was the only team using only a single camera to control the helicopter.
Conversely all the other teams used remote control.
The autonomy of the helicopter and the use of solely vision impressed the jury and gave our team the 2nd place.
They missed the 1sr place just because the size of the helicopter was a penalizing factor according to the rule used in the competition.
More info on the web page of the ASL-MAVERICK: http://projects.asl.ethz.ch/emav09/doku.php?id=Home