ActiveMultirotor · 2025-26
Storm
Autonomous heavy-lift quadcopter
- Dimensions
- 85 × 85 × 35 cm
- All-up weight
- 6.75 kg
- Max thrust-to-weight
- 4.09 : 1
All seasons
Season
2025–26
The Storm season
The 2025 quadcopter was rebuilt around a new body and became Storm. It took 3rd overall and the Best Mission Performance Award at ICMTC 2026. Sonic, a fixed-wing, was built the same season.
Results
Competitions
2026
ICMTC
10th International Competition of the Military Technical College, UAV Challenge (UAVC-9), Cairo, 11–16 July 2026
- 3rd place overall
- Best Mission Performance Award
Fleet
What we flew
- Active
- SonicActive
Journal
Written that season
Build logElectrical31 Jul 2026
Electrical Update: Wiring Incident and Process Changes
During reintegration of the new power module, a positive and negative terminal made contact and caused a short.
1 min read
Build logComputer Vision24 Jul 2026
Teaching the confirmation stage to handle occlusion
We’re retraining the confirmation stage on realistic, partially covered target crops so it can handle the difficult cases the detector sees at flight altitude.
1 min read
Build logControl21 Jul 2026
Control update: ICMTC 2026, 3rd place and best mission performance
3rd overall and best mission performance at ICMTC 2026. Mission 1 flew 1.72 km across 9 waypoints with a mid-mission payload drop at 0.12 m altitude RMSE.
1 min read
Build logControl21 Jul 2026
Control update: rules we now write every script around
Retry loops on every critical call, clear_mission() before every upload, servo lock only after arm(). The list of rules we’d already paid for in debugging time.
1 min read
Build logControl13 Jul 2026
Control update: the bug that changed how we trigger payload release
Mission-progress logs showed waypoints being skipped entirely. For a payload release gated on one waypoint event, that’s a release that might never fire.
1 min read
Build logControl6 Jul 2026
Control update: why we stopped trusting the "obvious" API calls
Three MAVSDK calls that look right in the documentation and fail on real hardware — and what we replaced each of them with.
1 min read
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