A 10-gram Microflyer for Vision-based Indoor Navigation

• Presented at: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'2006), Beijing, China, October 9-15
• Published in: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'2006, best paper award), Beijing, China, p. 3267-3272
• : IEEE, 2006

We aim at developing ultralight autonomous microflyers capable of navigating within houses or small built environments. Our latest prototype is a fixed-wing aircraft weighing a mere 10 g, flying around 1.5 m/s and carrying the necessary electronics for airspeed regulation and collision avoidance. This microflyer is equipped with two tiny camera modules, two rate gyroscopes, an anemometer, a small microcontroller, and a Bluetooth radio module. In-flight tests are carried out in a new experimentation room specifically designed for easy changing of surrounding textures.

Note: IROS 2006 best paper award

Keywords: indoor flying robot ; vision-based navigation ; collision avoidance ; optic flow

Reference

• LIS-CONF-2006-012
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• URL: http://www.iros2006.org

Record created on 2006-06-02, modified on 2012-03-20