"They can always use a water-hose and then the drone or whatever will be on their lawn----> problem solved :P"
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- About Me:
- I am a designer & mechanical engineer.
- Tell us a bit about your UAV interest
- I document my UAV endeavors in my blog here: http://uavs.gr . I am also the founder/editor of http://robotpig.net and a member of Robots association, http://robohub.org / http://robotspodcast.com
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Kal commented on IKE's blog post Quads Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum"@Krysztof It doesn't even have to be that high-res. You could couple a panoramic mirror with a decent processor to do object & position recognition and measure optical flow. Most of the technology is probably available today -- the hard…"
Krzysztof Bosak commented on IKE's blog post Quads Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum"@Kal This is interesting. I have seen recently ARGU-IS by DARPA video. Maybe a smaller version of it would be feasible in EU?"
Kal commented on IKE's blog post Quads Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum"@Krysztof I'm not sure that we're too far off from putting this kind of image processing equipment on board."
Krzysztof Bosak commented on IKE's blog post Quads Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum"You assume that they do something that has a chain of consequences and followers. To my knowledge in Lausanne they did something that worked better in that respect: pix4d and swinglet cam. From what happens in ETH Zurich I saw no implementations,…"
Flying Monkey commented on IKE's blog post Quads Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum"I think that 90% of the usefulness of this group is coming up with these out-of-the-box concepts and sharing them with us. It gives me ideas, it gives others ideas, and for the most part they document and share how they accomplished it. …"
Krzysztof Bosak commented on IKE's blog post Quads Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum"Of course, but it is merely scratching the surface. Moreover if they scratch the surface with the same quadocopter layout, in the same hall, for years, only by changing control algortihm and scenario wihtout ever testing it with outside conditions,…"
Flying Monkey commented on IKE's blog post Quads Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum"Krzysztof, I refer you to John Birkelands explanation. Laboratory testing WITHOUT those external factors is 100% necessary.
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Quads Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:30am 18 Comments 9 Likes
[copying from Robohub]
ContinueTwo of the most challenging problems tackled with quadrocopters so far are balancing an inverted pendulum and …
Quadrocopter air racing - Flying Machine Arena team / ETH Zurich
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 5:06am 0 Comments 2 Likes
Angela Schoellig and the Flying Machine Arena team at ETH Zurich have developed and implemented algorithms…
Continue Flying Robots Cooperate, Throw and Catch Balls
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 3:50pm 17 Comments 1 Like
New video from ETH Zurich’s Flying Machine Arena, you can read more on Robohub:
http://robohub.org/video-watch-flying-robots-cooperate-throw-and-catch-balls/
PS. …
UAV-01 concept by Intelligenia Dynamics.
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:52am 8 Comments 3 Likes
This is a new-platform from a Spanish start-up called Intelligenia Dynamics. It has four double co-axial motor/propellers and it is part of their upcoming product line of commercial uavs and services. You can read more at their website: http://www.iuavs.com/en/pages/index
(via robots.net / …
Continue Telegraph.co.uk mistakes small drone for UFO!
Posted on December 13, 2011 at 3:44pm 13 Comments 9 Likes
That is just too funny! A post from UK newspaper Telegraph has the title: Russian protesters film UFO over Moscow and show a video with a small hexcopter drone, that shoot video like…
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