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Robot Planes and Helicopters Taught Aerobatics

Posted by Zonk on from the educating-the-bots dept.

holy_calamity writes "MIT and Georgia Tech researchers are teaching small robotic aircraft some impressive stunts. MIT's RC plane's can take off and land from vertical perches (video), while the Georgia Tech helicopter can land on slopes of up to sixty degrees, by flipping backwards into freefall as it lands (video)."

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  1. Re:One of the best Helicoptor pilots by jcr · · Score: 4, Informative

    UAVs have to make a trade-off of size for endurance. A UAV like the predator can stay aloft for hours, but something small enough to hand-launch would be impressive if it could even carry enough fuel to stay aloft for half an hour.

    -jcr

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  2. Re:Not RC by The+Raven · · Score: 3, Informative
    It is absolutely remote controlled. If you RTFA, it states:

    testing indoors with off-board control systems and sensors. "The bit in the air is the cheapest part of these experiments," he says.

    The controls, cameras, everything is not on the plane. The plane/heli are just simple cheap RC toys, controlled remotely by expensive processors and sensors.
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