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I wants!]]>May 28th 2010 4:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/May 28th 2010 5:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/
That must be the coolest toy I never owned. :D]]>May 28th 2010 5:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/May 28th 2010 6:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/
You want??
I'm scared.]]>May 28th 2010 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/Well that and to make them operate without those completely surrounding IR emitters (those red lights)! A whole new research project in its own right.
It is impressive as it is, but in the same way that those Darpa challenge autonomous cars drove around urban landscapes, they needed a whole lot of sensory input - laser scanners, cameras etc. It seems in this case they've got a lab surrounded with IR emitters for precise positional feedback.
Remove them and the whole lot stops working. Notice too that the window is out on its own. Try putting the entire wall in place - I'd wager a large wall will disrupt the IR positional data that they receive.
Sorry to be a party pooper, but thats the likely reality.
]]>May 28th 2010 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/
Read the specs, it doesn't support flash or third party weaponry. ]]>May 28th 2010 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/does it support multitasking ?]]>May 28th 2010 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/May 28th 2010 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/First go get a VICON system for yourself. :P]]>May 28th 2010 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/
Actually it's connected via Xbee which is a RF device. It does seem to know the location of the window in the demo, but still might be more practical in real-world than one might initially suspect. I'm sure it'll still take a lot of refinement and testing though.]]>May 28th 2010 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/
When I started flying RC Helicopters I thought wind would be terrible, but since you're already constantly working to maintain stability, adjusting for wind is easy. (Really, flying them manually is very difficult, but wind only makes it slightly more than very difficult.)]]>May 28th 2010 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/May 28th 2010 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/This just got wedged between Boondock Saints and Search for the Holy Grail as my second favorite movie EVER. (I'll let you guess at which is first)]]>May 28th 2010 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/
Those aren't IR emitters. Those are cameras with a visible light strobe. The heli has reflective markers and the camera is tracking them. It's optical mocap, the cameras look like they are Vicon.]]>May 28th 2010 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/
its being tracked optically by Vicon cameras]]>May 28th 2010 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/
Defined as: "any squad comprised of humans"]]>May 29th 2010 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/May 28th 2010 4:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/asimo walks and runs pretty good]]>May 28th 2010 4:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/why dose this thing remind me of a flying killer robot. ]]>May 28th 2010 5:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASoCJTYgYB0]]>May 28th 2010 5:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/May 28th 2010 5:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZZd9UGV0uI]]>May 28th 2010 5:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67CUudkjEG4

PETMAN > Asimo. Petman reacts dynamically like a real human, it gets pushed off balance but it catches itself and rebalances. Asimo is carefully scripted to walk over stairs and still fails at it. Petman will be replicating other human functions soon enough as well, climbing fences, crawling, etc.]]>May 28th 2010 6:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/May 28th 2010 7:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/
Can PETMAN do this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9ByGQGiVMg]]>May 28th 2010 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/May 28th 2010 4:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/May 28th 2010 4:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/May 28th 2010 4:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/May 28th 2010 4:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/May 28th 2010 6:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/We see they're somewhat more maneuverable than H-K's or Harvesters.]]>May 28th 2010 6:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/May 28th 2010 6:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/You mean Google and DARPA- not skynet. Something else caught my eye too. Its inside a net. Nice to see their taking necessary precautions.

Should be mandatory with all autonomous machine tests.]]>May 28th 2010 6:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/May 28th 2010 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/
Heck, you don't even need quadrocopters for that. Laser mosquito killers are here with us already:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKm8FolQ7jw&feature=related
]]>May 28th 2010 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/May 28th 2010 4:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/May 28th 2010 4:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/May 28th 2010 4:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/May 28th 2010 4:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/
Still cool though.]]>May 28th 2010 5:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/not if you would use tiny combustion engines or gas turbines]]>May 28th 2010 5:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/May 28th 2010 5:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/10 minutes of 100% terror ]]>May 28th 2010 5:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/May 28th 2010 4:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/actually vtol, hovering and rolling isn't that difficult, take a look at mikrokopter.net those quadrocopters are stabilized by gyroscopes, accelerometers, air pressure sensors, compass and gps so they can hover on their own and you can setup a function so that they roll on the press of a button]]>May 28th 2010 5:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/i understand but writing the control logic is difficult. I'm doing it from scratch without downloading other open source code. so i know exactly what it requires and how much fine control over the rotors is needed. u need to take into account not only the roll,pitch and yaw but also the rate at which it changes.
right now i'm trying to implement it on a ARM9 and control over Wi-Fi instead of using a radio controller. but the logic for stabilisation is fairly difficult to implement.

p.s. if the PID logic is not realtime or too slow, u need the frame to be constructed perfectly.]]>May 28th 2010 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/May 28th 2010 5:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/28/autonomous-quadrocopter-flies-through-windows-straight-into-our/May 28th 2010 5:23AM