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Stanford's autonomous helicopters teach themselves how to fly

Posted by Chris Anderson on September 1, 2008 at 8:21pm

Stanford computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to teach themselves to fly difficult stunts by watching other helicopters perform the same maneuvers. The result is an autonomous helicopter than can perform a complete airshow of complex tricks on its own. Much more in the full article here.
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  • ionut September 3, 2008 at 8:47am
    Hmm,
    I curious if anybody here will try something similar.Did they just used the prerecorded transmiter comands and create a statistical model ,or they also include the onboard sensors(gyro,GPS) ?
  • Nullified September 3, 2008 at 8:40am
    Ok, fair enough :) It would be even more impressive (and funny) if they did actually use Basic stamps...
  • Scott James September 2, 2008 at 11:17pm
    The Basic stamp comment was a joke! ;-)
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    Chris Anderson September 2, 2008 at 1:35pm
    Not quite. It's DARPA funded. Papers and more here.
    Autonomous Helicopter: Stanford University AI Lab
    Stanford's Autonomous Helicopter research project. Papers, videos, and information from our research on helicopter aerobatics in the Stanford Artifi…
  • ionut September 2, 2008 at 1:04pm
    Nice.I presume the morons that pay tuition there support all these big boys toys :)
  • Nullified September 2, 2008 at 4:58am
    Very impressive! Although I don't think they used a Basic Stamp for this, but they did mention that some of the calculations were done on the ground and commands transmitted wirelessly at 20Hz to the helicopter.
  • Scott James September 2, 2008 at 3:41am
    It's amazing what you can get out of a Basic Stamp these days! :)
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