Those interested can start here http://diydrones.com/
On Sep 27, 2011, at 2:57 PM, joseph mpora wrote: > At Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale’s Laboratory of Intelligence Systems in > Lausanne, Sabine Hauert, Severin Leven and Dario Floreano have found a way to > make small, fixed-wing machines fly together, migrate and avoid crashing. The > swarms can be used for imaging and mapping the ground. In the future they may > fly on search and surveillance missions. > > ----- > > The robots were built by senseFly, a Swiss startup founded in late 2009, as a > spin-off of the work done at the Floreano’s lab. The bots communicate with > each other via a simple WiFi dongle connected to the on-board Linux computer > that runs the autopilot program. In this project, Hauert and Floreano > searched for the best balance between the robots’ weight, cost, turning > ability and the range of their communications, while keeping their ability to > flock. > > http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/flocking-robots/ > > Joseph > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any > way. -- Acta Virum Probant --
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