http://soup.juxi.net/ http://soup.juxi.net/ http://6.asset.soup.io/asset/0005/0374_3b93.jpeg 128 128 some random stuff I find interesting today .... {"tags":["Flying"],"type":"regular","title":"\u003Ca href=\"http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/02/autonomous_micro_helicopters.html\"\u003EAutonomous micro helicopters\u003C/a\u003E","source":"http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/02/autonomous_micro_helicopters.html","body":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://blog.makezine.com/upload/2010/02/autonomous_micro_helicopters/autoHeliCenteye.jpg\" height=\"337\" alt=\"autoHeliCenteye.jpg\" width=\"600\" /\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile doing research for the next issue of MAKE, I discovered this small company, Centeye, right here in my own Northern, VA backyard. They're developing vision chips for autonomous robotic aircraft. They have several videos on their site, showing various types of tests. Unfortunately, the videos are in WMV format only, and not on YouTube. \u003C/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe video screen cap above is of a micro helicopter holding its position using only visual information from a ring of six of Centeye's ArzPro sensors, mounted in the yaw plane. No gyro is used. Other videos show obstacle avoidance behaviors and the robot fliers taking control if the operator tries to fly them into something. Cool stuff. We'll have to try and get the engineer behind this to present at a Dorkbot.\u003C/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.centeye.com/index.html\"\u003ECenteye\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003EMore:\u003C/strong\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/self-righting_autonomous_swarming_r.html\"\u003ESelf-righting autonomous swarming robots\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/01/vicacopter_open_source_autonomous_vtol_uav.html\"\u003EVicacopter open source autonomous VTOL UAV\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/12/autonomous_stabilization.html\"\u003EAutonomous stabilization system for a helicopter\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ul\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n \n \u003Ca href=\"http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/02/autonomous_micro_helicopters.html\"\u003ERead more\u003C/a\u003E | \u003Ca href=\"http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/02/autonomous_micro_helicopters.html\"\u003EPermalink\u003C/a\u003E | \u003Ca href=\"http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/02/autonomous_micro_helicopters.html#comments\"\u003EComments\u003C/a\u003E | \n \n \n \n \u003Ca href=\"http://blog.makezine.com/archive/flying/\"\u003ERead more articles in Flying\u003C/a\u003E | \n \n \n \u003Ca href=\"http://digg.com/submit?url=blog.makezine.com%2Farchive%2F2010%2F02%2Fautonomous_micro_helicopters.html\u0026amp;title=Autonomous%20micro%20helicopters\u0026amp;bodytext=%20While%20doing%20research%20for%20the%20next%20issue%20of%20MAKE%2C%20I%20discovered%20this%20small%20company%2C%20Centeye%2C%20right%20here%20in%20my%20own%20Northern%2C%20VA%20backyard.%20They%26apos%3Bre%20developing%20vision%20chips%20for%20autonomous%20robotic%20aircraft.%20They%20have%20several%20videos%20on%20their%20site%2C%20showing...\u0026amp;topic=tech_news\"\u003EDigg this!\u003C/a\u003E"} <div><img src="http://blog.makezine.com/upload/2010/02/autonomous_micro_helicopters/autoHeliCenteye.jpg" height="337" alt="autoHeliCenteye.jpg" width="600" /></div> <p>While doing research for the next issue of MAKE, I discovered this small company, Centeye, right here in my own Northern, VA backyard. They're developing vision chips for autonomous robotic aircraft. They have several videos on their site, showing various types of tests. Unfortunately, the videos are in WMV format only, and not on YouTube. </p> <p>The video screen cap above is of a micro helicopter holding its position using only visual information from a ring of six of Centeye's ArzPro sensors, mounted in the yaw plane. No gyro is used. Other videos show obstacle avoidance behaviors and the robot fliers taking control if the operator tries to fly them into something. Cool stuff. We'll have to try and get the engineer behind this to present at a Dorkbot.</p> <p><a href="http://www.centeye.com/index.html">Centeye</a></p> <p><br /> <strong>More:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/self-righting_autonomous_swarming_r.html">Self-righting autonomous swarming robots</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/01/vicacopter_open_source_autonomous_vtol_uav.html">Vicacopter open source autonomous VTOL UAV</a></li><li><a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/12/autonomous_stabilization.html">Autonomous stabilization system for a helicopter</a></li></ul><br /> <p></p> <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/02/autonomous_micro_helicopters.html">Read more</a> | <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/02/autonomous_micro_helicopters.html">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/02/autonomous_micro_helicopters.html#comments">Comments</a> | <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/flying/">Read more articles in Flying</a> | <a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=blog.makezine.com%2Farchive%2F2010%2F02%2Fautonomous_micro_helicopters.html&amp;title=Autonomous%20micro%20helicopters&amp;bodytext=%20While%20doing%20research%20for%20the%20next%20issue%20of%20MAKE%2C%20I%20discovered%20this%20small%20company%2C%20Centeye%2C%20right%20here%20in%20my%20own%20Northern%2C%20VA%20backyard.%20They%26apos%3Bre%20developing%20vision%20chips%20for%20autonomous%20robotic%20aircraft.%20They%20have%20several%20videos%20on%20their%20site%2C%20showing...&amp;topic=tech_news">Digg this!</a>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:09:43 GMThttp://soup.juxi.net/post/45092995/Autonomous-micro-helicoptersurn:www-soup-io:1:45092995regularflying