The Khalifa University-Beijing Institute of Technology team Fly Eagle has become one of the five finalists for the Maritime Grand Challenge, part of the AED11-million Mohammed Bin Zayed International Robotics Competition (MBZIRC) series.
The KU-BIT Fly Eagle team received US$100,000 prize money, as well as a robotic arm worth US$50,000 for performing well in the Simulation Phase which required teams to develop the proof of concept while completing inspection and intervention tasks in simulation. The simulation environment included a large coastal region, UAVs with different sensor configurations, a USV model, a robot manipulator, and multiple target vessels.
