We welcome the swarm of autonomous hovering robot overlords being made by trainees at Humboldt University. The goal of this job is to develop an autonomous hovering platform that is managed through adapted insect behavior. Navigation comes from tracking genuine time inputs, such as air pressure as well as optical sensors, not by predefined paths as well as GPS coordinates. Some examples of this adapted habits are: navigation through polarized sun light like African ants, as well as optical flow similar to bees.
You can see the platforms in action on Spiegel Online, however unless you comprehend German, you won’t get much else out of it.
If any type of of this seems familiar, it’s since we covered CCCamp 2007, which was near Berlin as well as had some extremely similar quadcopters. While the big quadcopter platforms have been around for a while as well as are steadily coming down in price, there are some new options available that are rather tempting. anybody want to develop some autonomy into this bit baby?
[thanks fh]