MIT’s Robust Robotics Group is showing off the work they’ve done with a 2M wingspan drone, culminating in a death-defying flight through a parking garage.
The drone is self-contained. It does depend on starting out with a map of its environment, using this in conjunction with a laser rangefinder and inertial sensors to plot its route and adjust as necessary.
Found on Hackaday: http://hackaday.com/2012/08/16/autonomous-fixed-wing-drone-threads-the-needled-in-a-parking-garage/
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In general, we have a policy against reposts and ask the Moderators to reject dupes. It's just our effort to keep the signal/noise ratio as high as possible in the main "news" channel on the front page. Sometimes dupes slip through, and that's not the end of the world, but four in one week is a bit sloppy for us.
Chris do you think is that bad to repost something so many times?
You know , not everyone reads the blog hourly and we sometimes may skip some blog posts.
deja vu mode on
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I have to say Christopher the artical is enlightening.
Moderators, what's going on?? This is now the fourth time this story has been posted in the past week!
Quite impressive, would be even more so if the guidance system did not have a predetermined model of the environment before flight...
this is what engineering is all about. impressive stuff.
I think I seen this before it is pretty awesome! was it's path pre programmed ?What would happen if something suddenly jumped out in front of it? could it instantly calculate a way around the new obstacle ?
Wow that is extremely impressive. How long will it take us to catch up? :)