What is the WorldSkills – Drone Category
Drone operating is a rapidly developing segment of the global market. Currently, drones have become an
integral part of modern high-tech industries.
The skill implies controlling, operating, and performing maintenance, and minor repairs of a drone
system, as well as of the drone (or unmanned aerial vehicle) flight control equipment. Drones find
application in a variety of areas: monitoring, agriculture, construction survey, aerial mapping, cargo
delivery, and aerial photography. As the range of tasks set to drones increases, training of skilled
professionals in the field is topical.
For more information about joining the COEX Competition please contact us directly.
The competition is for high school and university level students.
Skill-Competition Modules
Collection, transmission and processing of data for the
assigned mission
• Flight plan preparation
• Preflight maintenance
• Collection of cartographic, geodesic, thermal and
other data from the air
• Aerial photo / video / thermal imagery
Flying on track
• Drone design modification
• video camera and video transmitter set up. transponder
installation
• Test flight
• Accuracy and speed when passing the route in the FPV
goggles
• Uninstalling the video camera and video transmitter,
copter reassembly to a standard state
• Modelling individual quadcopter parts and nods,
fasteners and payloads
• Preparing files for manufacturing
• Detection and elimination of defects
• Fault statement records
• Preflight check
• take-off test
• flight controller set up and calibration
• flight stability check
• Flight mission and route planning
• Starting up the flight simulation
• Uploading of the file with light checkpoints (WP
file), precision and coverage screenshots to the
desktop
• Introduction of changes to the copter design
- installation and calibration of
sensors
- video camera for computer vision
- single-board computer
• Program the UAV for autonomous flight within a
confined space indoors
Performing missions in autonomous
mode
• cargo detection and delivery
• precise flight over checkpoints
• obstacle evasion
• landing on a narrow area on a marker
• dismantling of the sensors, video camera and the
single-board computer
• copter reassembly to a standard state
• Starting/finishing stage of work on the digital
equipment
• Introduction of changes to the copter design
• Quadcopter assembly and installation of the
manufactured parts/nodes
• Calibration of remote control equipment
• Test flights
• Introduction of changes to the copter design as per
fastening and grapple modification
• Grapple installation
• Grapple calibration
• Calibration of remote control equipment
• Test flight
• Cargo pick-up and transfer
