Sep 27, 20065
Swarms of Autonomous Flying Robots
Tags: Robotics, Technology
MIT’s Jonathan How and his grad students Brett Bethke and Mario Valenti have managed to design and build an actual flock of autonomous flying robots that coordinate their actions.
The craft are pretty neat in and of themselves, complete with sensors, adaptive control, and inertial guidance on top of the quad-rotor design. And their independent cooperation promises some really interesting future missions around surveillance, support, and rescue applications. Until Cyberdyne Systems mounts weapons on them and Terminators descend from the sky anyway.
Notice that they are already surrounded by flying aircraft and are holding up their hands in surrender.
Seriously though, coordinated autonomous flying is definitely high cool.
5 Comments, Comment or Ping
AnkurB
Fantastic work. How much time was involved in actually making each of these??
Feb 28th, 2007
ahmed elruby
congratulations !! you did a wonderful job ,i am an egyption guy studying in faculty of engineering, mechatronics department ,i am working with my graduation project on this year , its a quad rotor with a mine detector by image processing , iam just wondering if anyone can help me with info about the brushless motor that i can use for that job if it is to hold 2.5 kg and from where can i get cheap ones
best regards ,
keep it up
Oct 13th, 2008
Kartikeya Goyal
Hi
I have a question for you. if you are using brush-less motors, then how are you controlling them, have you used a standard ESC (Electronic Speed Controller) or have you made one yourself ??
Feb 4th, 2010
binson
m final year ECE student …m doing project is flaying robot …plz help me
Mar 8th, 2010
chris
hi i am a ECE student,,,,,,i was trying this project for last half months……..i got four brushless motors…but two are different rpm…… and 2.4ghz remote……. but i dont have gyro.. is that necesary.. how it wiil control two different rpm motors????
May 4th, 2011
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