Autonomous terrain following and collision avoidance with a 400-gram UAV

This video shows a 400-gram unmanned aircraft flying fully autonomously using the optiPilot control strategy (using computer mouse sensors) for flight stabilization, terrain following and collision avoidance. GPS is used on top of optiPilot to provide global guidance. The video shows a flight at low altitude (around 9 meter height) in a natural outdoor environment over agricultural terrain with two copses of trees requiring efficient collision avoidance action.
For more information visit http://lis.epfl.ch/microflyers and http://sensefly.com.
Direct link to scientific paper: http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/142989

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• optiPilot
• UAV
• MAV
• flight control
• nap-of-the-earth
• computer mouse sensors
• optical flow
• swinglet

[DCRNM]

Resolution using a 10 MP camera from 400 foot altitude is about 3 cm. From 2,100 feet it is about 12 cm.

[wolf69a]

Amazing, very nice

[drwenck]

Did you develop this system yourself? Amazing...

I would love to find out about your development experiences.