Getting Small UAVs To Imitate Human Pilots Flying Through Dense Forests

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 15, 2012 @07:06AM from the on-earth-as-it-is-on-endor dept.

New submitter diabolicalrobot writes "The Robotics Institute at CMU has been developing systems to learn from humans. Using a Machine Learning class of techniques called Imitation Learning our group has developed AI software for a small commercially available off-the-shelf ARdrone to autonomously fly through the dense trees for over 3.4 km in experimental runs. We are also developing methods to do longer range planning with such purely vision-guided UAVs. Such technology has a lot of potential impact for surveillance, search and rescue and allowing UAVs to safely share airspace with manned airspace."

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Flight Videos (direct link) by diabolicalrobot · 2012-11-15 07:29 · Score: 5, Informative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wfZB0NfMHJM http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hNsP6-K3Hn4
Re:They don't need to imitate humans by camperdave · 2012-11-15 08:30 · Score: 3, Informative

Link, or Star Wars Version.

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