Engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., are studying the concept with models such as the unmanned aerial system GL-10 Greased Lightning. The GL-10, which has a 10-foot wingspan, recently flew successfully while tethered.…
"You could extend the capability of the drone by Computer-Vision aided flight using the newly announced NVIDIA Mobile Supercomputer Jetson TK1 instead of pcDuino."
"what about this powerful not so expensive compact board
Exynos5 Octa > ODROID-XU
combined with this small, low cost USB-capable Inertial Measurement Unit with open-source software
Thalamus IMU - Motion sense/control board"