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Tom Johnson

A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors - YouTube

For our "fly by night" colleagues.

A "swarm" of nanodrones flying in formation and navigating through obstacles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FubP0KzeS4w

-tj

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Steve Smith

Re: A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors - YouTube

Tom -

I'll see your formation flying and raise you the building of a 6m tower with similar devices. Who says Andy Goldsworthy can't be replaced by robotics?

http://www.zeitnews.org/robotics/flying-robots-build-a-6-meter-tower.html

The venue for both videos looks amazingly like our new space at SFX?

When can we expect Peter Lissaman to lead the GUTS or Cafe Scientifique kids to build a swarm of tiny Pterasaurs for Stephen and Josh to lead a Supercomputing Challenge Team to program build an Andy Goldsworthy-worthy environmental sculpture as specified by Fred and Becky?

Isn't that what SFx was conceived to foster?

- Steve

For our "fly by night" colleagues.

A "swarm" of nanodrones flying in formation and navigating through obstacles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FubP0KzeS4w

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Owen Densmore

Re: A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors - YouTube

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In reply to this post by Tom Johnson

This is *exactly* why machine learning is the most popular of the Stanford online classes. Gizmodo goes into the ML a bit more:

http://gizmodo.com/quadrotor

Most of the optimizations are based on spacial partial derivatives being fed into a gradient descent optimizer. In the ping-ball catch, the optimization is a bit more complex: it has to create a good model of the ping ball parabola and intercept it. It may be doing continuous tracking, however, simply because its own blades creates turbulence.

-- Owen

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:

For our "fly by night" colleagues.

A "swarm" of nanodrones flying in formation and navigating through obstacles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FubP0KzeS4w

-tj

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Pamela McCorduck

Re: A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors - YouTube

Wow. Impressive! (But you must remember, my recollections of robotics go back to SRI's Shakey.)

On Feb 26, 2012, at 3:38 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:

This is *exactly* why machine learning is the most popular of the Stanford online classes. Gizmodo goes into the ML a bit more:
http://gizmodo.com/quadrotor

Most of the optimizations are based on spacial partial derivatives being fed into a gradient descent optimizer. In the ping-ball catch, the optimization is a bit more complex: it has to create a good model of the ping ball parabola and intercept it. It may be doing continuous tracking, however, simply because its own blades creates turbulence.

-- Owen

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:
For our "fly by night" colleagues.

A "swarm" of nanodrones flying in formation and navigating through obstacles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FubP0KzeS4w

-tj

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Owen Densmore

Re: A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors - YouTube

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On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Robert Holmes <[hidden email]> wrote:

Impressive indeed. It will make a marvelous weapons and surveillance platform. Or should we just not worry about things like that?

—R

Well, I've stopped anyway. Lets look at its performance characteristics:

- Very loud. Lack of stealth.

- Operational radius of a mile or two.
- Payload near zero
- Surveillance easily jammed.

..but it could easily annoy you to death!

I understand your sentiment but they don't hold a candle to computers and the internet, do they?

-- Owen

Parks, Raymond

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors - YouTube

If they had a USB plug-in pigtail - they could cross any air gap.

On Feb 26, 2012, at 10:21 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Robert Holmes <[hidden email]> wrote:

Impressive indeed. It will make a marvelous weapons and surveillance platform. Or should we just not worry about things like that?

—R

Well, I've stopped anyway. Lets look at its performance characteristics:

- Very loud. Lack of stealth.

- Operational radius of a mile or two.

- Payload near zero

- Surveillance easily jammed.

..but it could easily annoy you to death!

I understand your sentiment but they don't hold a candle to computers and the internet, do they?

-- Owen

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Owen Densmore

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Makes me want to learn to shoot a shotgun.

On Mar 1, 2012, at 8:39 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

More on the drone front:
The Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 is Now Available to Pre-Order

http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=20345

-- Owen

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Sarbajit Roy (testing)

Re: A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors - YouTube

In reply to this post by Tom Johnson

Here's a swarm of nanodrones playing the James Bond theme.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/us-news-blog/2012/mar/01/flying-robot-quadrotors-ted-video

On 2/26/12, Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:
> For our "fly by night" colleagues.
>
> A "swarm" of nanodrones flying in formation and navigating through
> obstacles.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FubP0KzeS4w
>
> -tj
>

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Robert Holmes

Re: A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors - YouTube

And here's a DARPA-sponsored nano-hummingbird for surveillance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgxtIPIDBnY

—R

P.S. Remember that it's only those who have something to hide who object to surveillance. Good citizens would never object to monitoring; government, private or otherwise.