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MIT Develops Fully Autonomous Indoor Helicopter [vid]
- tudorachim 17y agoGiven the four rotor stability, this seems like more of an interesting perception problem than a control problem. See http://heli.stanford.edu/ http://heli.stanford.edu/ for examples of the latter.
- stcredzero 17y agoI think such vehicles have tremendous military potential, particularly in urban environments, depending on how well one can meet the challenges of energy storage. I also think there's tremendous potential in police work and search and rescue. Also, given the success of shows like Battlebots, I think there's some good potential for video media. The requirements for flying platforms to be lightweight versus the need to to be durable would make a flying robot combat show very interesting.
- kloncks 17y agoThe Air Force is also building similar aircrafts but ignoring the mechanics of flight and concentrating more now on detecting airborne things (smoke, chemicals, etc)
- the_real_r2d2 17y agoI wonder which machine learning algorithms they are using. It looks interesting for Reinforcement Learning or ANNs.