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Australia // Tactical Capture the Flag

UNSW Southern Cross

Read the field, own the field.

UNSW Sydney // Sydney

Crew
4
Robots
1
Track
Tactical Capture the Flag
Founded
2024
To Dhahran
12,559 km

Robot catalog

The machine

TM-U01

In testing
CurrawongDecoy-and-strike carrier // OpenA fast differential-drive carrier paired with a low-cost decoy, coordinated over a self-healing mesh link designed to hold in heavy interference.
Drive
Differential
Comms
Self-healing mesh
Sensing
Lidar + camera
Role
Carrier + decoy

The crew

Who's behind the build

  • Jack ThompsonTeam lead · Comms
  • Mia NguyenAutonomy
  • Oliver ReedMechanical
  • Ella WatsonElectronics

Team dossier

Southern Cross came up through UNSW's autonomous systems groups, and comms robustness is their obsession: their mesh link is built to survive a contested field. On offence they run a decoy that pulls defenders before the real carrier moves.

Their track: Tactical Capture the Flag

From the pit // shot list

  • 01Mesh test
  • 02Decoy run
  • 03Field practice
  • 04Team

Planned coverage. No pit photography exists yet.

One of the crews entered for the RoboNexus World Championship.

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