The European Robotics Challenge is an FP7 project that aims to get research out of the lab and into the hands of European industry. To this end it has paired academic groups with industrial partners and provided them with assistance and funding to develop a robotic solution to an identified industrial need.
The challenge consists of three seperate domains, robotic arms, mobile manipulators and micro aerial vehicles (MAVs). ETH are the hosts of this third domain.
As hosts we have provided the challenges with all the basic libraries needed to get an autonomous MAV up and flying (VI state estimation, trajectory generation, a MPC, dense mapping, etc), set tasks where they must demonstrate their ability to create a robust autonomous system and provided assistance where possible.