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

2012-03-02 Thread Sarbajit Roy
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 t...@jtjohnson.com wrote: For our fly by night colleagues. A swarm of nanodrones flying in formation and

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

2012-02-26 Thread Owen Densmore
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

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

2012-02-26 Thread Owen Densmore
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Robert Holmes rob...@holmesacosta.comwrote: 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: -

[FRIAM] A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors - YouTube

2012-02-25 Thread Tom Johnson
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 FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St.

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

2012-02-25 Thread Steve Smith
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