Air Cargo Challenge
| Founded | 2003 |
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| Focus | Design-Built-Fly, Competition |
| Origins | Lisbon, Portugal |
Area served | Academic Competitions, Aerospace, Aeronautics, Competition, UAVs |
Key people | João Pedro Loureiro, Founder Luis Cruz, Co-Founder |
| Website | www |
The Air Cargo Challenge is an aeronautical engineering student competition that is held in Europe every two years.[1]
This competition was held for the first time in 2003 and it was founded by a group of Aerospace students in Lisbon. The competition is primarily directed to aeronautical and aerospace engineering students, similarly to the north-American Design/Build/Fly.
The main objective is to design and build a radio-controlled aircraft that is able to fly with the highest possible payload according with the rules established in the competition regulations, which vary in each edition. The team's score is not only given by the performance demonstrated in the flight competition part, but also by the technical quality of the project, through the evaluation of the design report and drawings.
The event's first edition (ACC'03) was organized by the APAE: Associação Portuguesa de Aeronáutica e Espaço (Portuguese Association of Aeronautics and Space), an aerospace group from Instituto Superior Técnico.[2] From the ACC'07 onwards, the competition grew to an international level under the umbrella of EUROAVIA, the European Association of Aerospace Students, and the winning team got the possibility of organizing the next edition. The ACC of 2011 was held in the University of Stuttgart,[3] August 2011, organized by the AKAModell Stuttgart together with the EUROAVIA Stuttgart.[1] The Universidade da Beira Interior was the winner of this edition,[1] thus it took place in Portugal'. Again, the Team from Stuttgart won this Edition, and got the organization responsibility. In 2017 the 2015 winner HUSZ organized the event in Zagreb.[4] The competition took place in Stuttgart again on August 12-17, 2019. After a one-year delay due to the Covid pandemic, the competition was held in Munich in the summer of 2022. The 2022 winner ADDI organized the 2024 edition on 10th-12th July in Aachen, Germany.[5] The next ACC 2026 will be held in Stuttgart, Germany.
Competition results
[edit]2003 - Organization: APAE, Lisbon
[edit]| Place | Team | University | Country/City |
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| 1st | UBI 2 | University of Beira Interior |  Covilhã
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| 2nd | Flamingo | University of Minho | Guimarães
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| 3rd | Beluga | University of Beira Interior | Covilhã
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2005 - Organization: APAE, Lisbon
[edit]| Place | Team | University | Country/City |
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| 1st | Ícaro | Instituto Superior Técnico e University of Coimbra | Lisboa/Coimbra
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| 2nd | Fly By | Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto | Porto
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| 3rd | Pegasus | University of Beira Interior | Covilhã
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2007 - Organization: Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon
[edit]| Place | Team | University | Country |
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| 1st | PEGASUS II | University of Beira Interior | Portugal
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| 2nd | Akamodell Stuttgart | University of Stuttgart |  Germany
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| 3rd | Blei-Ente | Euroavia Muenchen | Germany
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| 4th | Lead Barons | Delft University of Technology |  Netherlands
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| 5th | ESTG Cargo | Polytechnic Institute of Leiria | Portugal
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| 6th | Trencalos | Polytechnic University of Catalonia |  Spain
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| 7th | UBI2 - SkunkWorks | University of Beira Interior | Portugal
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| 8th | UoPatras ATLAS | University of Patras |  Greece
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| 9th | De vliegende Hollander | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands
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| 10th | FLY@UMINHO'07 | University of Minho | Portugal
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2009 - Organization: University of Beira Interior, Covilhã
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2011 - Organization: University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart
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2013 - Organization: University of Beira Interior, Covilhã
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2015 - Organization: University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart
[edit]2017 - Organization: University of Zagreb, Zagreb
[edit]2019 - Organization: University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart
[edit]| Place | Team | University | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Fly Harder (AkaModell München) | Technical University of Munich | Germany
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| 2nd | ... and the Beast | University of Udine |  Italy
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| 3rd | The Beauty ... | University of Udine | Italy
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| 4th | THU AIR | Tsinghua University |  China
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| 5th | AERO@UBI | University of Beira Interior | Portugal
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| 6th | ICARUS PoliTo | Politecnico di Torino | Italy
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| 7th | Chicken Wings | Brno University of Technology |  Czech Republic
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| 8th | Lift Up | University of Padova | Italy
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| 9th | EUROAVIA RZESZOW | Rzeszow University of Technology |  Poland
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| 10th | A.S.A.T.-Aurora | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | Greece
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| 11th | ACC - Lisboa | University of Lisboa | Portugal
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| 12th | Nephele | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | Greece
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| 13th | Jetstream | Wroclaw University of Science and Technology | Poland
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| 14th | HUSZ Jaeger | University of Zagreb |  Croatia
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| 15th | KOVAN | Istanbul Technical University |  Turkey
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| 16th | Trencalòs Team | Polytechnic University of Catalonia | Spain
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| 17th | Team Vexilium Pisa | University of Pisa | Italy
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| 18th | Albatross Tampere | Tampere University |  Finland
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| 19th | BEOAVIA | University of Belgrade |  Serbia
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| 20th | ROTA | Istanbul Technical University | Turkey
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| 21st | NPU-Innovation | Northwestern Polytechnical University | China
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| 22nd | ATA | Istanbul Technical University | Turkey
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| 23rd | Titan Team | Politehnica University of Bucharest |  Romania
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| 24nd | Locreum Project | University of Cádiz | Spain
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| 25nd | UPC Venturi | Polytechnic University of Catalonia | Spain
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| 26nd | Xtra2 | Polytechnic University of Valencia | Spain
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| 27nd | HERMES | National Technical University of Athens | Greece
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2022 - Organization: AkaModell München e.V., Technical University of Munich Munich
[edit]The 2021 edition of the ACC was delayed to 2022 due to the Covid pandemic. It was organized by AkaModell München from Technical University of Munich. All information to the ACC2022 can be found on www.acc2022.de. The competition took place 5.7.2022-9.7.2022 in Munich. The regulations were released on August 6, 2020.
| Place | Team | University | Country |
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| 1st | ADDI | RWTH Aachen | Germany
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| 2nd | AeroUD | University of Udine | Italy
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| 3rd | AkaModell Stuttgart | University of Stuttgart | Germany
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| 4th | Xtra2 UPV | Polytechnic University of Valencia | Spain
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| 5th | Chicken Wings BUT | Brno University of Technology | Czech Republic
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| 6th | LiftUP | University of Padova | Italy
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| 7th | Chicken Wings CTU | University Prague | Czech Republic
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| 8th | JetStream | Wroclaw University of Science and Technology | Poland
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| 9th | ASAT | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | Greece
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| 10th | Olissipo | University of Lisboa | Portugal
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| 11th | U-Fly | Universidad Aeronáutica en Querétaro (UNAQ) |  Mexico
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| 12th | ICARUS PoliTo | Politecnico di Torino | Italy
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| 13th | AeroUBI | University of Beira Interior | Portugal
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| 14th | HUSZ Falcons | University of Zagreb | Croatia
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| 15th | BEOAVIA | University of Belgrade | Serbia
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| 16th | LeanIng | University of Pisa | Italy
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| 17th | Tophane Aygök | Tophane Vocational and Technic High School | Turkey
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| 18th | ITU Sky-UAV | Istanbul Technical University | Turkey
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| 19th | Trencalòs | Polytechnic University of Catalonia | Spain
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| 20th | Albatross | Tampere University | Finland
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| 21st | UVigo Aerotech | University of Vigo, Ourense Campus | Spain
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| 22nd | WUT | Warsaw University of Technology | Poland
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| 23rd | THU AIR | Tsinghua University | China
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| 24nd | HAWings | HAW Hamburg | Germany
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| 25nd | HERMES | National Technical University of Athens | Greece
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| 26nd | Locreum | University of Cádiz | Spain
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2024 - Organization: Aachen Drone Development Initiative (ADDI), RWTH Aachen University
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Statistics
[edit]Number of participated Teams per Country (2007-2024)
[edit]| Place | Country | Number of participated Teams |
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| 1st | Portugal | 35 |
| 2nd | Spain | 22 |
| 3rd | Poland | 20 |
| 4th | Italy | 19 |
| 4th | Greece | 19 |
| 6th | Germany | 17 |
| 7th | Turkey | 15 |
| 8th | China | 12 |
| 9th | Romania | 10 |
| 10th | Czech Republic | 7 |
| 11th | Croatia | 5 |
| 11th | Serbia | 5 |
| 13th | Belgium | 4 |
| 14th | Netherlands | 3 |
| 14th | Finland | 3 |
| 14th | Egypt | 3 |
| 17th | United Kingdom | 2 |
| 18th | Brazil | 1 |
| 18th | Mexico | 1 |
| 18th | United States | 1 |
| 18th | Australia | 1 |
| 18th | India | 1 |
Medal table (2007-2024)
[edit]| Place | Team | University | City | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| 1 | AKAModell Stuttgart e.V. | University of Stuttgart | Stuttgart | Germany | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | UBI | University of Beira Interior | Covilhã | Portugal | 2 | 1 | |
| 3 | AkaModell München e.V. | Technical University of Munich | Munich | Germany | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| 4 | EUROAVIA Zagreb | University of Zagreb | Zagreb | Croatia | 1 | ||
| 4 | ADDI | RWTH Aachen | Aachen | Germany | 1 | ||
| 6 | University of Udine | University of Udine | Udine | Italy | 3 | 1 | |
| 7 | Tsinghua University | Tsinghua University | Beijing | China | 1 | 1 | |
| 8 | Beihang Aeromodelling Team 1 | Beihang University | Beihang | China | 1 | ||
| 9 | ESTG Cargo2 | Polytechnic Institute of Leiria | Leiria | Portugal | 1 | ||
| 10 | EUROLIFTER | Rzeszów University of Technology | Rzeszow | Poland | 1 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "The Competition |". Archived from the original on 2013-01-05. Retrieved 2013-07-21.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-11-06. Retrieved 2013-07-21.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Akamodell Stuttgart e.V."
- ^ "ACC2017 Webpage". Archived version of acc2017.com. Archived from the original on 2019-08-05.
- ^ ADDI. "ACC 2024 Website". Retrieved 2024-10-15.
- ^ "Akamodell Stuttgart e.V."
- ^ "Anatolian Craft".
- ^ "Cienciahoje.pt".
- ^ "Notícia > "Participação da S3A na Air Cargo Challenge" | IST". Archived from the original on 2011-11-06. Retrieved 2017-02-02.
- ^ a b "Nymphnoir". Archived from the original on 2014-12-18. Retrieved 2017-02-02.
External links
[edit]- https://web.archive.org/web/20110723004649/http://aircargochallenge.net/portal/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20101227010310/http://www.acc2011.com/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20130522142129/http://apae.org.pt/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20081204102043/http://aircargochallenge.net/portal/finalResults.pdf
- www.upcventuri.com
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190805114405/http://www.acc2017.com/
- https://aachen-drone.com/zb_acc2024/