Comment by Alexander LeBrun on May 16, 2012 at 8:48am

Super impressive gents hats off to you all.

Comment by Jan Detlefsen on May 16, 2012 at 10:06am

very impressed. could you post a picture of the 2D lidar scanner? Didn't know they are so compact that you can mount them on a plane.

Comment by Alex Arevalo on May 16, 2012 at 11:40am

I'm impressed. This is WAY cool! Especially considering that such an aircraft doesn't have the agility (I don't think) that a quadcopter would. Does state estimation involve a Kalman filter?

Comment by Abe on May 16, 2012 at 2:34pm

The lidar is a Hokuyo UTM-30LX:

http://www.hokuyo-aut.jp/02sensor/07scanner/utm_30lx.html

The details of the filter are in the paper... It's a hybrid between an Extended Kalman Filter and a Gaussian Particle Filter.

Comment by Jack Crossfire on May 16, 2012 at 5:30pm

Was that your porsche?

Comment by Rana on May 17, 2012 at 9:27am

I am really very impressed ! Anyone who see this will definitively be impressed, its future !

Comment by John Hestness on May 17, 2012 at 8:49pm

This is very cool, but at 13 ounces and $5000.00 I am going to have to wait a few years for Moore's law to make it practical.  I keep wondering about using a stereo vision system.

Comment by Cristian Carlsson on May 18, 2012 at 3:50am

That is so cool!

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