A team from the Kazan Helicopters of the Russian Helicopters Holding took first place in the semi-finals of the Workforce for Digital Industry. Creation of complete design and engineering solutions in Cyberdrome contest conditions. The next stage of Minpromtorg Digital took place on the sidelines of the MAKS 2021 Airshow and brought together 14 teams from 11 Russian regions.
Kazan Helicopters was represented by a team of 8 students from the Tupolev Kazan National Research Technical University (KNRTU-KAI). The mentors were employees of the Kazan Helicopters Experimental Design Bureau. Prior to the contest, team members trained at the territory of the plant, a ground was prepared for them and all conditions were created.
The tasks of the Minpromtorg Digital stage were not simple and had a time limit. First, the participants designed logistics for Russian Post to deliver goods using drones to remote regions. The second part of the competition involved combating land use violations. The contestants were tasked to take aerial photos of the area with programming drones and then process the data obtained. In the third part of the contest, drones had to be programmed to apply fire-fighting technology in the forest, as well as to sow damaged areas with tree seeds.
Now the team of Kazan Helicopters and KNRTU-KAI will have to compete for victory in the finals of the Workforce for Digital Industry contest, which will be held in Gelenjik in October.