Starmac Quadcopters
July 4, 2008 · Print This Article
STARMAC is a multi vehicle tryout bed used to demonstrate new concepts in multi-agent control on a real-world platform. The fleet, consisting of six quadrotor vehicles that can fly indoors and outdoors as well as being able to carry computing and sensing resources sufficient for autonomous operations. Among the computing resources on board are a low level microcontroller board called the Robostix, the Gumstix Verdex for positive estimation and control, a
PXA270 based one board computer and a PC-104 computer running Linux(Fedora) for onboard processing of vision knowledge, optimal path planning and other high level automation tasks. These vehicles will be able to be used in real-world application with suitable computing resources and excess lift capacity to get the job done… autonomously.Permalink | Comment | Uberbargain | Uberphones
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