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This lab has several other videos with quad rotor robots like this (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvRTALJp8DM ), but don't worry about them escaping and starting a robot domination: they rely on infrared motion capture systems in that room for extremely precise location sensing. Once GPS gets sub-meter accuracy, then we should start worrying.
Or once the kinect shrinks to size of a short stack of quarters.
I think flying swarm rebotics would be best weaponized. You could call them hack-mans, man-chops, person-hacks...HRM
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If it was next to my apartment building I'd want the drones to work during the day and if it was next to my office I'd want the drones to work at night. Most homes are not right next to office buildings. I wouldn't mind if the drones were a couple blocks away though.
I live next to a small industrial estate, my employers's campus location has houses the other side of the road and behind some trees from memory. Offices often have bars and restaurants around them which do good trade in the evening, sometimes city centre apartments mixed in too. I certainly follow the principle but I think there's less urban clear 'this time is OK' areas than you might think, low enough to further p…
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I think the part connection is just an implementation detail. They can make these guys place something and another robot attaches.
Pretty neat! I'm sure they'll get to it eventually, but there's no advantage to having three drones in this demo, since the work isn't pipelined. It seems that a drone has to wait until one finishes picking stuff up before it can pick up something itself.
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GPS + Accelerometer is already pretty darn accurate, I'm not really sure why they use the IR room. Perhaps simply easier to set up, and easier to co-ordinate the bots?
These things don't look very powerful, to put it mildly. GPS means outdoors which means wind which is a bit harder for a small, light hovering robot to handle. Indoor lets them demonstrate the principle with a useful simplifying assumption of no wind.
Navigational issues resolved, I have a hard time seeing these things having trouble with a modest wind.
Anybody know the weight of each column?
EDIT: that piece of 2x4 looks to be about 12 inches long. Assuming the wood is pine (likely, and also light), and using 350kg/m^3 as the pine's density (http://www.simetric.co.uk/si_wood.htm the lightest figure quoted) that works out to about .55 kg. (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=350+kg%2Fm^3+*+%282*4*1...). Quite impressive.
36 battery changes later...