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Quadrotor automatically recovers from failure or aggressive launch, without GPS

Posted by IKE on March 30, 2015 at 11:48am

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Researchers from the Robotics and Perception Group from the University of Zurich, developed a new technology that allows a quadrotor to automatically recover and stabilize from any initial condition without relying on external infrastructure like GPS. The technology allows the quadrotor system to be used safely both indoors and out, to recover stable flight after a GPS loss or system failure. And because the recovery is so quick, it even works to recover flight after an aggressive throw, allowing you to launch a quadrotor simply by tossing it in the air like a baseball.

More info: Robohub & Robotics and Perception Group, University of Zurich.

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  • Damian McKay Earl ll May 9, 2015 at 11:34pm

    Lots of potential here!

  • Dragan April 3, 2015 at 12:17pm

    Good stuff!!

  • Kitsen13 April 2, 2015 at 12:55pm

    I think it's already integrated in almost controller ...

    Proportionnal Integral Derivative...

    There is no magic formula needed to accomplish the same action

  • Nicolas.Wang April 1, 2015 at 4:10am
    Where is that paper? At their website?
  • Luke Nyhof March 31, 2015 at 11:51pm

    @Waladi - thoroughly read the research papers first, then write the code...

  • Waladi March 31, 2015 at 10:03pm

    Will this technology be available for public ?

  • JB March 30, 2015 at 9:20pm

    I think I'll need this to drop quads from flying fixed wings... ;-)

  • W. Joe Taylor March 30, 2015 at 4:38pm
    Dr. Da IDE Scaramuzza, Dr. Roland Siegwart, Dr. Samir Bouabdallah, and others at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have done incredible work in this field and every other aspect of this technology (especially quad rotors, etc.) since at least 2004. There is a wealth of information available on all the web resources published by that group. Thanks for all the great work!
  • Greg Dronsky March 30, 2015 at 4:00pm

    I totally admire your work!

  • Gary McCray March 30, 2015 at 12:23pm

    Really nice development guys, should be very useful.

    It seems we are going to be seeing a lot more visual odometry stuff coming from your group.

    Best regards,

    Gary

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