Stanford Autonomous Helicopter Acrobatics

[AnimeAdmirer22]

It's amazing that something that big can stop and reverse the direction of the propeller in just a fraction of a turn.

[mrkekson]

@AnimeAdmirer22 it tid not stop the rotor, just change the pitch of the blades from + to -

[AgEnT22OrAnGe]

wow reall awsome though

[AgEnT22OrAnGe]

looks like its spassing out sortta

[nerdfrag]

realy nice

[waakhond]

DO A BARREL ROLL!!!

[sandberger123]

this is a strange video

[robertlam18]

It looks like losing control most of the time. I will hide if a PC control a 600 class helicopter near me.

[PhazonSouffle]

i wonder how many people are going to complain because you never did a barrel roll

[chemicalBR0]

subdcc since i commented on this video I seen the other video and it has to learn from a human pilot.

so in effect its still programmed.

if you show it how to do an elevator flip....

then show it how to do a stationary pirouette.

will it invent a chaos?

theres no denying its a cool project I was merely commenting on the use of the word autonimous "learning helicopter" would be a better phrase

if you turned it on without showing it anything what would it do?

[G2Loq1]

Nice but with all that technology, why not choosing electric brushless motor and lipo battery ? ;)

Just sound/smokeless!

[chemicalBR0]

i don';t see how its Autonomous its very obviously an RC helicopter.(looks like a raptor).by the looks of it you have the transmitter hooked up to some kind of computer system and the moves are pre programmed then sent to the reciever. that is NOT Autonomous

the definition of Autonomous is.

self-governing; independent; subject to its own laws ONLY.

It didn't invent these 3d moves on its own. a human did then programmed it to do them. (where's the fun in that)

Id rather watch Alan Szabo :)

[subdcc]

read the paper? don't sound like you know how exactly it is done. Actually IMHO autonomous system can use distributed environment and well... IT ALWAYS DOES. It is just a matter of amount of data being sent. Why? because even Mars' Rover is sending data to Earth even it is "completely" autonomous (when it failed in early days due to filesystem error, they had to re-patch it remotely, so it is distributed by design at many levels of abstraction).

[djscurge]

Actually, it is quite autonomous, see the video "Autonomous Helicopters Teach Themselves to Fly Stunts" from stanforduniversity. It learns from a technique called "apprenticeship learning"

[anyeos]

Are it changing the rotation direction of the helix so fast? There is not risk of breaking it down?

[Rickenbacker69]

Human RC pilots do much worse things to helicopters, so no worries there. I wonder if they taught it how to autorotate if the engine quits, though...

[incekt]

Any links to the software development or the hardware/interfacing?

[averyellis]

i'd like to see those graphics in action.

how does an inverted takeoff work?

[trxspirit]

start with upright, get up a little, punch the cyclic back and add in negative pitch

that's an inverted take off

[javierenchina]

now that's impressive

[caaakeeey]

nice

[falada]

amazing!

[PNprodutions]

lol