Official Rules

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Challenge Overview

Objective

The primary objective is to advance the development of artificial intelligence for multi-robot and multi-drone systems, a critical area for both defense and civil security applications.

The Rescue Scenario

The core mission involves:

  • Exploring an unknown, difficult-to-access, and potentially dangerous area
  • Searching for people (stationary or moving)
  • Guiding them out to a designated Rescue Area

A typical use case: investigating the dark or smoky basement of a collapsed building.

Drone Fleet & Equipment

Each team manages a fleet of 10 drones. Each drone is equipped with:

  • Communication functions
  • Laser rangefinder (lidar)
  • Semantic sensor (for object nature determination)
  • GPS

Drones have life points that decrease after collisions, leading to their destruction when their life points reach zero.

Technical Focus

Teams must design solutions robust enough to:

  • Handle limited communication range
  • Collaborate to share information
  • Manage unforeseen events (sensor/communication failures, drone loss)

Any scientific approach is welcome, including planning, learning, and bio-inspired methods.

Simulation & Evaluation

All development takes place in a 2D simulation environment with maps of increasing complexity. Features include:

  • Physics engine
  • Simulated sensors and communications
  • Special zones: GPS denied, communications denied, drone destruction

Drone controllers must be developed in Python. The simulation environment is open source.

Evaluations

  • Intermediate Evaluation 1: Navigation functions
  • Intermediate Evaluation 2: Coordination and communication functions
  • Final Evaluation: Conducted on unknown maps, testing all difficulties in a complete scenario

Scoring Criteria

Weighted evaluation focuses on:

  • Percentage of people rescued
  • Percentage of map explored
  • Drone life points remaining
  • Percentage of time remaining

The top 10 teams after technical evaluation must present their solution to a jury. Quality and operational credibility of the solution are considered in the final score.

Intellectual Property

The organizers do not claim any intellectual property rights over the solutions developed by the teams. All solutions remain the property of their authors.