Drone contest to enhance skills of Omani youth

Drone contest to enhance skills of Omani youth

Muscat: With the participation of 26 students from various universities and colleges in the Sultanate of Oman; the final qualifiers for the Oman Artificial Intelligence Drone Competition began on Monday. It is being organised by the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology in partnership with Sultan Qaboos University and with the support of the Omani Qatari Telecommunications Company (Ooredoo Oman), OQ, the Sohar Industrial Port Company, the Omani Liquefied Natural Gas Company, and the Oman Horizon Company. The final stage of the competition includes two tracks: the (manual control) track in which 16 participants will participate. They will be asked to control the drone using a manual remote control to carry out several tasks related to inspecting industrial facilities designed in the form of models in the "flying" arena. The second track is the "Autonomous Control Enhanced by Artificial Intelligence" track, in which 10 participants will take part. They will be asked to use artificial intelligence tools and the "Python" language to programme the "drones" to carry out the tasks of inspecting and tracking industrial facilities within the flying arena, independently and without human intervention. The competition aims to enhance community awareness of drones and their multiple uses and