PhD Student gets quadrotor helicopter moving aggressively
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#2This is cool.
But it looks like it has too many degrees of freedom to make such fast/complicated manoeuvres steered by human.
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#3This is interesting. It reminds me of manhacks from half life 2 though which scares me somewhat but thats probably intensional since its so aggressive.
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#4This is cool. But it looks like it has too many degrees of freedom to make such fast/complicated manoeuvres steered by human.
That is what they need us (ie, programmers) for. Layers of programming jobs for a militarized swarm of these things. From twitch decisions to overall unit formation and attach plans. These would also be useful as bomb delivery devices. Think about it flying straight down, either reversed propeller spin or (more likely) upside down flight to avoid AA fire then sneaking through a window with plastic/gel explosives to take out a general hiding in an otherwise public building. Could be used for micro biological/poison attacks, like anthrax to take out key targets, or as cheap satellites for the 3rd world to spy on their people.
Of course civilian uses are vast as well, but harder to find really high priced jobs in the private industry.
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#5Nice! This is more of what I'd like to see on HN.
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#6doesn't seem that crazy when you see someone doing this kind of stuff without computer assistance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zzhriAN9Bc
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#7doesn't seem that crazy when you see someone doing this kind of stuff without computer assistance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zzhriAN9Bc
With respect to the skill displayed in that video, it's different from this research. The video you linked doesn't have the same precision displayed in the research; I don't think they'd be able to go from hovering, through a window, back to hovering as precisely as was shown in with the single copter craft.
The single copter craft does turns, flips and dances all around, but it's over a much larger area and nor is the human pilot trying to accomplish a particular task. I think he's just having fun, free-form style. The key difference, I think, is that a single copter craft can't change direction as quickly as the quad copter craft.
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#8Am I the only one who thinks a future filled with robots like this is scary and pretty undesirable?
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#9Am I the only one who thinks a future filled with robots like this is scary and pretty undesirable?
Speak for yourself, I look forward to joining the resistance and shooting at them all day long.
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#10Nice companions for that little dog-like robot.
The military applications are kind of creepy