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Aggressive Maneuvers for Autonomous Quadrotor Flight

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An autonomous quadrotor helicopter from UPenn's GRASP Lab performs precise aggressive maneuvers, including flips and flying through narrow windows.

Control of precise aggressive maneuvers with an autonomous quadrotor helicopter. This is a small autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Demonstrations of flips, flight through windows, and quadrotor perching are shown. Work done at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania.

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What people say. Engineers point to this video as an early, impressive demonstration of high-precision autonomous drone control and agility.

CrabDudeon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Watch a swarm of flying robotic drones construct a tiny building”

The simple matter is that the implications of these drones reaches far beyond simply building things, like showing one aspect of what a hammer can be used to build. The real takeaway is the radical increase in the abilities of flying drones, and the raw potential they leave to be harnessed by future engineers and entrepreneurs. Those who discount their usefulness by staying within the context of the video, and not elaborating outside of that, aren't getting it. I would refer you especially to @burgerbrain's comment and the videos he posted. Specifically: link to this video

yellowbkpkon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Watch a swarm of flying robotic drones construct a tiny building”

This lab has several other videos with quad rotor robots like this (e.g. link to this video ), but don't worry about them escaping and starting a robot domination: they rely on infrared motion capture systems in that room for extremely precise location sensing. Once GPS gets sub-meter accuracy, then we should start worrying.

burgerbrainon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Watch a swarm of flying robotic drones construct a tiny building”

Did you watch the same videos I did? They have these things lifting sizeable pieces of 2x4's ( link ) and they pull of some pretty absurd manoeuvring ( link to this video ) and recovery ( link ). Navigational issues resolved, I have a hard time seeing these things having trouble with a modest wind.

nickpinkstonon Hacker News • Mentions

On “When The Drones Come Marching In”

I'm completely with you, and it could be a great way to get the public interested in (i.e. funding) technology. It reminds me of when auto racing actually led to improvements for street cars. I mean kids already love various robotic cartoons - who wouldn't love the same as a real-life game. Attendance could be a little dangerous though... Let's hope UPenn's QuadRotor Lab is in the running. link to this video

shabbleon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Coming Soon: the Drone Arms Race”

People like the GRASP1 guys: link to this video are probably somewhere pretty high on that list. They still need to solve the location sensing issues though - having high-precision calibrated wall mounted sensors aren't really practical for ad-hoc use. I don't doubt that someone will solve this problem in the not-too-distant future though, and heavily autonomous quadrotor aerostats will be in heavy use. 1 link

asynchronous13on Hacker News • Mentions

On “Tacocopter - Flying Robots Deliver Tacos To You”

I think you're referring to the grasp lab at UPenn, they did stuff with quad rotors landing on Velcro. link to this video Georgia Tech did more with the larger Yamaha Rmax helicopter. link

michaelton Hacker News • Mentions

On “Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum with quadrocopters”

…d robots that don't rely on multiple fixed high speed cameras - for example, the RoboCupSoccer Middle-Size League 4. There are also people working on quadrotors that don't cooperate/do acrobatics and who don't rely on fixed vision systems - for example people working on autonomous quadrotor mapping 5 and using IMUs and on-robot vision 6. 1 link to this video 2 link 3 link 4 link 5 link 6 link…

TeeWEEon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Amazon to deliver by drone? Don't believe the hype”

I believe this is possible. Just look at these autonomous drones doing stunts: link to this video Delivering a packet is much easier than the stuff the are doing in this vid.

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On “First Victim of Amazon Drones: The Credibility of CBS and 60 Minutes”

Can't. I met the guy in person while travelling by train. He had the drone in question in his suitcase. He did tell me however he was involved with this link to this video (Or another such effort —I met him in France.)

gene-hon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Drone Uses AI and 11,500 Crashes to Learn How to Fly”

…could output 'stick vectors,' which translate to control stick commands. Maybe even have the network take in some sensor data and a 'move in this direction' vector. Add in a pinch of sufficiently fast video processing and we could probably learn how to do fly through an FPV course or do aggressive maneuvers to fly through someone's windows0 0 link to this video…