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Cornell Builds Autonomous UAV

Posted by michael on from the million-and-one-uses dept.

tshak writes "From Microsoft Research, 'Faculty and students at Cornell University have built an unmanned airplane with its own on-board, embedded control system. The large-scale model plane flies by accessing coordinates from an off-the-shelf GPS unit.' Not only does the plane run XP embedded, but the software is written in C# on the .NET Compact Framework. This is all powered by an 800mhz Crusoe processor with 1GB of total system storage."

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  1. Blue Sky of Death? by philbowman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Duck!

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  2. Brings new meaning.... by tdemark · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...to the term "crash"

  3. Ugh. by suso · · Score: 4, Funny

    I fear the onslaught of 1001 jokes about this plane crashing.

  4. Cruise missile by panxerox · · Score: 4, Funny

    And the difference between this and a cruise missile is what exactly?

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  5. 800 mhz? by Valkyre · · Score: 5, Funny

    In my day, when we wanted mobile computing power, we had to do it with a 6 Mhz Z80. I mean really, you DONT need a desktop computer for waypoint flying.

    CPU Usage for UAV
    XP Embedded - 35%
    Waypoint system - 1%
    Flight Control System - 2% (It's written in C# with .net framework)
    Seti@home client - 62%

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