International Aerial Robotics Competition

International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC) is the longest running collegiate aerial competition in the world. The primary purpose of the IARC is to move the state-of-the-art in aerial robotics forward through the creation of significant and useful mission challenges that are considered 'impossible' at the time that they are proposed.

Complimentary Software

MathWorks provides complimentary software for this competition. If your team is participating in this competition and needs software, fill out the software request form.

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MATLAB and Simulink

Robotics Arena

Learn how to use MATLAB and Simulink to design algorithms, create simulations, and speed up development for student competitions in robotics and unmanned systems.

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Competition Resources

General Resources

Quadcopter Project

Getting Started with MATLAB, Simulink and ROS

Quadcopter Discovery

MATLAB for Deep Learning

RoboNation Resources

UAV Scenario Simulation

Unreal Engine UAV Simulation

Motion Planning with RRT for Fixed-Wing UAV

UAV Toolbox

Getting Started Guide for RoboNation Competitions

APM2 Simulink Blockset

What Is Aerospace Toolbox? (2:03)

What Is Aerospace Blockset? (2:00)

Drone Simulation and Control (5 videos)

Recorded Webinars

Introduction to Model-Based Design: Modeling and Simulation with Simulink (40:03)

Quadcopter Simulation and Control Made Easy (37:56)

MATLAB and Simulink Robotics Arena: Simulating Quadcopter Missions (18:22)

Implement Deep Learning Applications for NVIDIA GPUs with GPU Coder (41:11)

Sensor Fusion for Orientation Estimation (19:14)

Labeling Ground Truth for Object Detection (19:33)

Hardware

PX4 Autopilot Support from UAV Toolbox

AR.Drone 2.0 Support from Embedded Coder

Interactive Online Tutorials

Learn by doing! Our 2-hour online courses provide a hands-on learning environment where you will interact with a web-based version of MATLAB and receive instant and contextual feedback.

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