Onboard Visual Navigation on a Quadrotor

Swiss engineers demonstrate onboard visual navigation scheme on the Pixhawk quadrotor. Rapid disturbance response is achieved through low CPU usage and 30ms latency from shutter to control output.

from pixhawk: http://pixhawk.ethz.ch/blog/eccv_2010_onboard_computer_vision_demo

Here, UPenn brings it to life with indoor navigation - another ROS compatible project. This demo involves processing much larger data sets and relies on some remote computing to crunch the numbers: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/autonomous-multifloor-indoor

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Shannon Morrisey September 17, 2010 at 2:21pm

Exactly!!! I'm sure there have been all kinds of spectacular accidents involving disgruntled quadrotors tired of getting pushed around all the time. I kind of feel sorry for them - the drones, not the people.
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Jason Short September 17, 2010 at 1:57pm

Why does everyone keep sticking their hands on these things in the air? Have they never used a table saw before???

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