Comments on: Autonomous Helicopters! http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2009/10/18/autonomous-helicopters/ Listening for the pitter-patter of tiny metal feet. Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:28:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mark http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2009/10/18/autonomous-helicopters/comment-page-1/#comment-1022 mark Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:00:30 +0000 http://www.educatingsilicon.com/?p=86#comment-1022 No, it's not my thesis. For my own research I worked with ground robots. I had a post about it here: http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2009/06/18/a-thousand-kilometers-of-appearance-only-slam/ No, it’s not my thesis. For my own research I worked with ground robots. I had a post about it here:
http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2009/06/18/a-thousand-kilometers-of-appearance-only-slam/

]]> By: suwat82 http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2009/10/18/autonomous-helicopters/comment-page-1/#comment-1021 suwat82 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:57:08 +0000 http://www.educatingsilicon.com/?p=86#comment-1021 Is this your thesis? Is this your thesis?

]]> By: Bollinger http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2009/10/18/autonomous-helicopters/comment-page-1/#comment-849 Bollinger Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:28:41 +0000 http://www.educatingsilicon.com/?p=86#comment-849 Wow....they are simply amazing to see. Really it would have been a great fun, simply unbelievable indeed. Wow….they are simply amazing to see. Really it would have been a great fun, simply unbelievable indeed.

]]> By: Milan http://www.educatingsilicon.com/2009/10/18/autonomous-helicopters/comment-page-1/#comment-848 Milan Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:43:41 +0000 http://www.educatingsilicon.com/?p=86#comment-848 I thought this would interest you: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/3d-mapping-drone-fires-off-lasers-from-a-mile-away-video/" rel="nofollow">3D mapping drone fires lasers from a mile away</a> The MIT Technology Review has unearthed a new laser-based 3D mapping robot that can produce results similar to those obtained from $100,000 systems at about a fifth of the cost. Funded by the US Army, researchers at the Stevens Institute of Technology have now demonstrated the Remotely Operated and Autonomous Mapping System (ROAMS, for short), which employs a mirror-based LIDAR system that bounces a laser off a rapidly rotating mirror and gleans environmental information from how long it takes for each pulse to bounce back. An array of video cameras and IR proximity sensors add to this recon bot's sentience, though you'll still need to be within a mile's range to operate it. So not quite yet ready for solo missions to Mars, but plenty useful for gathering data on our own planet. You'll find video and imagery of the results this machine kicks out after the break. I thought this would interest you:

3D mapping drone fires lasers from a mile away

The MIT Technology Review has unearthed a new laser-based 3D mapping robot that can produce results similar to those obtained from $100,000 systems at about a fifth of the cost. Funded by the US Army, researchers at the Stevens Institute of Technology have now demonstrated the Remotely Operated and Autonomous Mapping System (ROAMS, for short), which employs a mirror-based LIDAR system that bounces a laser off a rapidly rotating mirror and gleans environmental information from how long it takes for each pulse to bounce back. An array of video cameras and IR proximity sensors add to this recon bot’s sentience, though you’ll still need to be within a mile’s range to operate it. So not quite yet ready for solo missions to Mars, but plenty useful for gathering data on our own planet. You’ll find video and imagery of the results this machine kicks out after the break.

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