AERPAW Autonomous Data Mule (AADM) Challenge Results Released
The registration for the AADM challenge was opened in December 2024, and 22 student teams from various universities registered for the competition by late Spring. They have been developing their solutions since Spring. By July 1st, 2025, 16 of the registered teams submitted their AADM solutions in the form of software containers, where they introduced approaches for autonomous navigation and data collection from four different AERPAW towers. The AERPAW team evaluated these submissions, and 10 finalist teams were selected on July 24th. AERPAW will deploy the containers of the finalist teams in the testbed environment for final evaluations. Later in August, we are planning to organize an award ceremony to introduce the winning teams and present them with their awards. More information about the competition can be found at https://aerpaw.org/aerpaw-aadm-challenge/.
