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  • Robert Palmore May 27, 2010 at 7:14am
    Years ago when I saw my first modern quad rotor craft, I chuckled to myself that it was just a cool toy and never could be a real RC. Well now folks I think well you know that nasty w word, well heck I'll say it wrong. Not only a serious RC platform but looks like this could be the future of short range surveillance. I've never thought of building a quad rotor before but it looks like it's going to get on the list. With the level of control and accuracy displayed in the video, I can't imagine any other platform to be used for getting into small places for remote surveillance. I'm very impressed.
  • Jason Kunc May 27, 2010 at 5:50am
    the money, the time. just wow.
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    Gary Mortimer May 27, 2010 at 3:21am
    Ah your right any quad can do that, its all in the software.
  • Ryan May 27, 2010 at 3:13am
    I still think having it chasing the perp. down the hallway and hit him with a taser gun would be fun! LOL
  • Ryan May 27, 2010 at 3:12am
    It's not really about the quad - it's about the software which can apply to many other platforms.

    Must be able to reverse the thrust on those motors in order to do that kind of maneuvering...I wonder if they simply reverse direction of the motors on the fly?
  • Overwatch May 27, 2010 at 2:43am
    If only highspeed, HD cameras weren't so heavy. Then we could have a bunch of them on the quad, looking all around, and tracking the environment for attitude estimation. Kinda like an IMU, except with zero drift.

    One day... :)
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    Sandro Benigno May 27, 2010 at 2:34am
    I can imagine a possible future for that things... a group of quads flying together, all them positioning around the window, scanning and sharing each singular perspective of 3D spatial info. Each one calculates a patch for itself. So one by one pass through the role. It would be nice! :)
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    Gary Mortimer May 27, 2010 at 2:28am
    Indeed but how stable is the quad, just think how hard it is to get the platform flying like that.
  • simonl May 27, 2010 at 2:25am
    Yup; truly awesome - for a research project... but how will it be useful outside of an IR tracking environment? Still blows my mind though - awesome (again!).
  • Chris Johnson May 26, 2010 at 8:57pm
    Very cool
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