News: MIT Student Builds Autonomous Self-Flying Drone with Obstacle Avoidance

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Title: MIT Student Builds Autonomous Self-Flying Drone with Obstacle

Avoidance

 

Description: Andy Barry, an MIT grad student set off to build an

autonomous drone that was not only capable of flying at speeds up to

30MPH, but it could also automatically avoid obstacles that stands in

its way on-the-fly. The drone itself isn't all that special, its being

powered by a processor found in the Samsung Galaxy S3 (quad-core CPU's),

weighs in at a light 664 grams, and it also has two stereo cameras

onboard. The real brains behind this smart drone is the software that

runs on it. The processors compute the flight trajectory, where

obstacles are, and dozens of other parameters for the flight within

milliseconds as its flying through the air at speeds up to 30 MPH.

 

Link:

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