Papers on Miniature Aerial Vehicles and Vision-based Obstacle Avoidance

November 6, 2012 | Radio Controlled Airplanes | By: Mark VandeWettering

I’m pretty interested in autonomous vehicles, and because of the wide availability of cheap electronics and compute power, experimentation in this realm is increasingly within the grasp of amateurs. I like the idea of building small aerial drones which can not only follow a predetermined coarse, but can also work to avoid obstacles and the like.

Today I found a press release for a paper “Low-Power Parallel Algorithms for Single Image based Obstacle Avoidance in Aerial Robots”, which seemed right up my alley. A quick Google revealed this web page, containing links to their papers. The math involved is a little beyond the casual, but I think I’ll be able to sort it out. Very nifty stuff, bookmarked for later.



Comments

Comment from Twylo
Time 11/6/2012 at 6:19 pm

Oo, cool! As soon as I saw the video, I thought “wow, that sure looks like Cornell… is that Goldwin Smith Hall?!” And it is!

They sure didn’t have autonomous flying drones zooming around the Arts Quad when I was there, though. 🙂