Air Cargo Challenge

The Air Cargo Challenge is an aeronautical engineering competition that is held in Europe every two years.[1]

Air Cargo Challenge
Founded2003
FocusDesign-Built-Fly, Competition
Location
Area served
Academic Competitions, Aerospace, Aeronautics, Competition, UAVs
Key people
João Pedro Loureiro, Founder
Luis Cruz, Co-Founder
Websitewww.acc2021.de

This competition was held for the first time in 2003 and it was founded by a group of Aerospace students in Lisbon. The competition is primarily directed to aeronautical and aerospace engineering students, similarly to the north-American Design/Build/Fly.

The main objective is to design and build a radio-controlled aircraft that is able to fly with the highest possible payload according with the rules established in the competition regulations, which vary in each edition. The team's score is not only given by the performance demonstrated in the flight competition part, but also by the technical quality of the project, through the evaluation of the design report and drawings.

The event´s first edition (ACC'03) was organized by the APAE: Associação Portuguesa de Aeronáutica e Espaço (Portuguese Association of Aeronautics and Space), an aerospace group from Instituto Superior Técnico.[2] From the ACC'07 onwards, the competition grew to an international level under the umbrella of EUROAVIA, the European Association of Aerospace Students, and the winning team got the possibility of organizing the next edition. The ACC of 2011 was held in the University of Stuttgart,[3] August 2011, organized by the AKAModell Stuttgart together with the EUROAVIA Stuttgart.[1] The Universidade da Beira Interior was the winner of this edition,[1] thus it took place in Portugal'. Again, the Team from Stuttgart won this Edition, and got the organization responsibility. The last edition of ACC took place in 2017 in Zagreb.[4] The last competition started end of 2018. The competition took place in Stuttgart 12.-17.August 2019. The next competition will be held in Munich in the summer of 2021. (Starting summer 2020)


Competition results

2003 - Organization: APAE, Lisbon

Place Team University Country/City
1st UBI 2 University of Beira Interior Covilhã
2nd Flamingo University of Minho Guimarães
3rd Beluga University of Beira Interior Covilhã

2005 - Organization: APAE, Lisbon

Place Team University Country/City
1st Ícaro Instituto Superior Técnico e University of Coimbra Lisboa/Coimbra
2nd Fly By Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Porto
3rd Pegasus University of Beira Interior Covilhã

2007 - Organization: Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon

Place Team University Country
1st PEGASUS II University of Beira Interior  Portugal
2nd Akamodell Stuttgart University of Stuttgart  Germany
3rd Blei-Ente Euroavia Muenchen  Germany
4th Lead Barons Delft University of Technology  Netherlands
5th ESTG Cargo Polytechnic Institute of Leiria  Portugal
6th Trencalos Polytechnic University of Catalonia  Spain
7th UBI2 - SkunkWorks University of Beira Interior  Portugal
8th UoPatras ATLAS University of Patras  Greece
9th De vliegende Hollander Delft University of Technology  Netherlands
10th FLY@UMINHO'07 University of Minho  Portugal

2009 - Organization: University of Beira Interior, Covilhã

Place Team University Country
1st Akamodell Stuttgart[5] University of Stuttgart  Germany
2nd TU Heavy Technical University of Munich  Germany
3rd ESTG Cargo2 Polytechnic Institute of Leiria  Portugal
4th Sonic Kids Politehnica University of Bucharest  Romania
5th Lusofly Portuguese Air Force Academy  Portugal
6th UoP Atlas II Hellenic Air Force Academy  Greece
7th Anatolian Craft[6] Middle East Technical University  Turkey
8th What's up Yaw Hogeschool van Amsterdam  Netherlands
9th FLY@UMINHO'09 University of Minho  Portugal
10th Trencalòs Polytechnic University of Catalonia  Spain
11th INFINITeam Politehnica University of Bucharest  Romania
12th Air cargo ABC 2009[7] Instituto Superior Técnico  Portugal
13th Ucari Middle East Technical University  Turkey
14th Volo Ergo Sum University of Beira Interior  Portugal
15th Pisa Cargo Project University of Pisa  Italy
16th Brutus University of Porto  Portugal
17th Uasas  Portugal
18th CAL Clube de Aeromodelismo de Lisboa  Portugal
19th Equipa_0 Instituto Superior Técnico  Portugal
20th Chicken Wings University of Belgrade  Serbia
21st Céfiro University of León  Spain
22nd Aero Swansea 09 Swansea University  United Kingdom

2011 - Organization: University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart

Place Team University Country
1st UBI - Portugal[8] University of Beira Interior  Portugal
2nd TU Eleven Technical University of Munich  Germany
3rd Tsinghua University Tsinghua University  China
4th Student Wings Politehnica University of Bucharest  Romania
5th Team K.U.Leuven KU Leuven  Belgium
6th PASSAROLA Team[9] Instituto Superior Técnico  Portugal
7th Nymph Noir[10] Middle East Technical University  Turkey
8th Trencalòs Team Polytechnic University of Catalonia  Spain
9th Anatolian Craft - Aselsan Middle East Technical University  Turkey
10th EUROAVIA Ntua National Technical University of Athens  Greece
11th Nymph Rouge[10] Middle East Technical University  Turkey
12th High Flyers Politehnica University of Bucharest  Romania
13th IPL Team Polytechnic Institute of Leiria  Portugal
14th Air FEUP University of Porto  Portugal
15th Gryphus Team University of Aveiro  Portugal
16th UoPatras ATLAS III University of Patras  Greece
17th EUROAVIA Rzeszow University of Rzeszów  Poland
18th HUSZ Black Eagle University of Zagreb  Croatia
19th SU Team Eryr Swansea University  United Kingdom
20th Bialystok MiSIE team University of Białystok  Poland
21st Luso SPAD Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa  Portugal

2013 - Organization: University of Beira Interior, Covilhã

Place Team University Country
1st AKAModell Stuttgart e.V. University of Stuttgart  Germany
2nd Tsinghua University Tsinghua University  China
3rd Beihang Aeromodelling Team 1 Beihang University  China
4th HUSZ Vulture University of Zagreb  Croatia
5th Beihang Aeromodelling Team 1 Beihang University  China
6th High Flyers Silesian University of Technology  Poland
7th EESC-USP Juliett University of São Paulo  Brazil
8th PHOENIX Politehnica University of Bucharest  Romania
9th EUROAVIA Athens – Hermes 2 University of Athens  Greece
10th Podlasie Tigers Bialystok University of Technology  Poland
11th UoP ATLAS IIIB University of Patras  Greece
12th ANATOLIAN CRAFT Middle East Technical University  Turkey
13th EUROAVIA Rzeszów University of Rzeszów  Poland
14th UoP ATLAS IV University of Patras  Greece
15th Trencalòs Team Polytechnic University of Catalonia  Spain
16th Team KU Leuven KU Leuven  Belgium
17th IPLeiria AirCargo Polytechnic Institute of Leiria  Portugal
18th LUSITÂNIA Team UBI, IST, UNL (unofficially)  Portugal
19th HERCULES Instituto Superior Técnico  Portugal
20th Gryphus II University of Aveiro  Portugal
21st Angry Bird Cairo University  Egypt

2015 - Organization: University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart

Place Team University Country
1st EUROAVIA Zagreb University of Zagreb  Croatia
2nd Born TU Lift Technical University of Munich  Germany
3rd EUROLIFTER Rzeszów University of Technology  Poland
4th AeroUD-MET University of Udine  Italy
5th AERO@UBI University of Beira Interior  Portugal
6th AIR Tsinghua University  China
7th PISA Air Cargo Team University of Pisa  Italy
8th ATLAS TEAM UPAT University of Patras  Greece
9th NPU INNOVATION Northwestern Polytechnical University  China
10th UPC Venturi Polytechnic University of Catalonia  Spain
11th Team KU Leuven KU Leuven  Belgium
12th Olisipo Instituto Superior Técnico  Portugal
13th Studencki Klub Modelarski Wojskowej Akademii Technicznej Military University of Technology in Warsaw  Poland
14th BUT Chicken Wings Brno University of Technology  Czech Republic
15th High Flyers Silesian University of Technology  Poland
16th The Lifters Rzeszów University of Technology  Poland
17th TransylAVIA Technical University of Cluj-Napoca  Romania
18th Poznan Aero Design Poznań University of Technology  Poland
19th Trencalòs Team Polytechnic University of Catalonia  Spain
20th Podlasie Tigers Bialystok University of Technology  Poland
21st Owl Tamers Aero Design Team Middle East Technical University  Turkey
22nd SKYLINE University of Belgrade  Serbia
23rd PhoeniX University of Porto  Portugal

2017 - Organization: University of Zagreb, Zagreb

Place Team University Country
1st AKAModell Stuttgart e.V. University of Stuttgart  Germany
2nd Fly Hard Technical University of Munich  Germany
3rd Born TU Lift Reloaded Technical University of Munich  Germany
4th AeroUD-MET University of Udine  Italy
5th AIR Tsinghua University  China
6th NPU INNOVATION Northwestern Polytechnical University  China
7th AKA Classics University of Stuttgart  Germany
8th JetStream Wroclaw University of Science and Technology  Poland
9th Icarus Polito Politecnico di Torino  Italy
10th UPC Venturi Polytechnic University of Catalonia  Spain
11th The Lifters Rzeszow University of Technology  Poland
12th Aristotele Space & Aeronautics Team Thessaloniki Faculty of Engineering  Greece
13th Chicken Wings Brno University of Technology  Czech Republic
14th Hermes Team University of Athens  Greece
15th Aerotéc - Lisbon Instituto Superior Técnico
16th ATLAS Team UPAT University of Patras  Greece
17th LKN Bialystok University of Technology  Poland
18th ATA Team Istanbul Technical University  Turkey
19th Kovan Istanbul Technical University  Turkey
20th AERO@UBI_PVG - Portugal University of Beira Interior  Portugal
21st PHOENIX Team Politehnica University of Bucharest  Romania
22nd The Wingineers Katholieke Universiteit Leuven  Belgium
23rd AERO@UBI_MARS University of Beira Interior  Portugal
24nd Trencalòs Team Polytechnic University of Catalonia  Spain
25nd VALCAN PROJECT Universitat Politechnica de València  Spain
26nd Buzz Lightyear University of Science and Technology Zewail City  Egypt
27nd TransylAVIA Technical University of Cluj-Napoca  Romania
28nd Flightmare University of Science and Technology Zewail City  Egypt

2019 - Organization: University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart

Place Team University Country
1st Fly Harder (AkaModell München) Technical University of Munich  Germany
2nd … and the Beast University of Udine  Italy
3rd The Beauty … University of Udine  Italy
4th THU AIR Tsinghua University  China
5th AERO@Ubi University of Beira Interior  Portugal
6th ICARUS PoliTo Politecnico di Torino  Italy
7th Chicken Wings Brno University of Technology  Czech Republic
8th Lift Up University of Padova  Italy
9th EUROAVIA RZESZOW Rzeszow University of Technology  Poland
10th A.S.A.T.-Aurora Aristotle University of Thessaloniki  Greece
11th ACC - Lisboa University of Lisboa  Portugal
12th Nephele Aristotle University of Thessaloniki  Greece
13th Jetstream Wroclaw University of Science and Technology  Poland
14th HUSZ Jaeger University of Zagreb  Croatia
15th KOVAN Istanbul Technical University  Turkey
16th Trencalòs Team Polytechnic University of Catalonia  Spain
17th Team Vexilium Pisa University of Pisa  Italy
18th Albatross Tampere Tampere University  Finland
19th BEOAVIA University of Belgrade  Serbia
20th ROTA Istanbul Technical University  Turkey
21st NPU-Innovation Northwestern Polytechnical University  China
22nd ATA Istanbul Technical University  Turkey
23rd Titan Team Politehnica University of Bucharest  Romania
24nd Locreum Project University of Cádiz  Spain
25nd UPC Venturi Polytechnic University of Catalonia  Spain
26nd Xtra2 Polytechnic University of Valencia  Spain
27nd HERMES National Technical University of Athens  Greece

2021 - Organization: AkaModell München e.V., Munich

The 2021 edition of the ACC will be organized by AkaModell München from Technical University of Munich. All information to the ACC2021 can be found on www.acc2021.de. The competition will take place 6.7.2021-9.7.2021 in Munich. The regulations were released on August 6th 2020.


Statistics

Number of participated Teams per Country (2007-2019)

Place Country Number of participated Teams
1st Portugal 31
2nd Poland 17
3rd Greece 14
3rd Spain 14
5th Germany 12
6th Turkey 12
7th China 10
7th Italy 10
9th Romania 9
10th Belgium 4
11th Egypt 3
11th Netherlands 3
11th Croatia 3
11th Czech Republic 3
12th Serbia 2
12th United Kingdom 2
13th Brazil 1
13th Finland 1

Medal table (2007-2019)

PlaceTeamUniversityCityCountryGoldSilverBronze
1AKAModell Stuttgart e.V.University of StuttgartStuttgartGermany31
2UBIUniversity of Beira InteriorCovilhãPortugal2
3AkaModell München e.V.Technical University of MunichMunichGermany142
4EUROAVIA ZagrebUniversity of ZagrebZagrebCroatia1
5 University of Udine University of Udine Udine Italy 1 1
5Tsinghua UniversityTsinghua UniversityBeijingChina11
7Beihang Aeromodelling Team 1Beihang UniversityBeihangChina1
9ESTG Cargo2Polytechnic Institute of LeiriaLeiriaPortugal1
10EUROLIFTERRzeszów University of TechnologyRzeszowPoland1

References

  1. http://acc2013.ubi.pt/?page_id=2
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  3. http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/akamodell/ACC2013/
  4. http://www.acc2017.com/
  5. http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/akamodell/ACC2009/
  6. http://www.ae.metu.edu.tr/~craft/
  7. https://abccargo.ae/cargo-and-courier-services/air-cargo/
  8. http://www.cienciahoje.pt/index.php?oid=50505&op=all
  9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-11-06. Retrieved 2017-02-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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