Using quadrocopters and some rope, researchers have woven together a bridge strong enough to walk across. Made at the ETH Zurich Flying Machine Arena in Switzerland, the bridge joins two scaffolds, and is the first full-scale load-bearing structure autonomously built by flying machines.
You need to be a member of diydrones to add comments!
Comments
3D spatial localization to do this requires centimeters or even millimetric precision. That is possible in such a lab environment with the camera based motion system. I do not know yet of a technology that would allow this to work outdoors ?
Very cool.
I can't wait until this sort of thing is possible outdoors.
it's described in the linked article. They use a camera based motion capture system.
"The project was developed at the Flying Machine Arena [4], a research and demonstration platform for aerial robotics. The arena is equipped with a motion capture system that provides vehicle position and attitude measurements for the small custom quadrocopters. An offboard computer runs the algorithms and sends commands out to the flying machines via a customized wireless infrastructure."
It is a totally amazing achievement!
Wow! This is amazing, great work. Is there collision avoidance in use here or is it all meticulously designed flight paths? Can't wait to read more.
Wonderful application!!