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This work is part of the STARMAC Project in the Hybrid Systems Lab at UC Berkeley (EECS department).
Researcher: Patrick Bouffard
PI: Prof. Claire Tomlin
Our lab’s Ascending Technologies [1] Pelican quadrotor, flying autonomously and avoiding obstacles.
The attached Microsoft Kinect [2] delivers a point cloud to the onboard computer via the ROS [3] kinect driver, which uses the OpenKinect/Freenect [4] project’s driver for hardware access. A sample consensus algorithm [5] fits a planar model to the points on the floor, and this planar model is fed into the controller as the sensed altitude. All processing is done on the on-board 1.6 GHz Intel Atom based computer, running Linux (Ubuntu 10.04).
A VICON [6] motion capture system is used to provide the other necessary degrees of freedom (lateral and yaw) and acts as a safety backup to the Kinect altitude–in case of a dropout in the altitude reading from the Kinect data, the VICON based reading is used instead. In this video however, the safety backup was not needed.
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how is using what kind of control panel?
This thing is an amazing piece of work. As for the real world applications
of something like this, we are only limited by our own imaginations. I like
it!
Ho ho ho…
skynets on the run . .
whatever you dont do the MOONWALK in front of it!..it wiil go beserk just
like Jackson!
wow, if you can map a room with a kinect, imagine the kind of shit that the
military have got!
“hi neo! welcome to the matrix!!”
One of the most advance commercial 3D camera sensors in the world, and to
think i can find it on craigslist for 40 bucks
Cracked sent me here!
SKYNET!
Shut up and take my money !
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i want one…
IS A GOOD IDEA TO USE KINECT, CAN THEY BUILD A SMALLER KINECT THAT IS 360
DEGREES ANGLE VIEW SO IT CAN SEE ALL AROUND, THAT WILL BE COOL AND BETTER
:D
Now put a nachine gun and make it shoot human targets. Haha this shit could
a a country massive control
how do you make the quad go around the object instead of just pausing ???
why is knowing making a video on how to make one at home come on guys!
I have one of these, but it shoots a small pistol at any obstacle it
senses. I don’t go into my basement anymore.
utilising point cloud data is such a massive step forward for autonomous
flight. I wonder what sort of speed the camera is able to calculate such
data… I know they’re using point clouds now in A.R
that is so cool
how do you transmit the kinect data wirelessly to a computer?
How does the kinect sensor avoid obstacles using the slam algorithm….
its good but what the range ??
how much time did you take to program it?
New game !
niiice!
Excellent work, I’m doing something similar in a terrestrial prototype, as
you did to feed the kinect ..
OK. So now let’s add a cat and see what happens