Parrot AR-Drone indoor autonomous flight

This video shows a fully autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle following a short pre-learned path. The quadcopter is first manually guided around by a teleoperator. During the teleoperated flight, image processing algorithms (SURF,SIFT) recognize salient objects from the image of the on-board camera.
Positions of these objects are estimated and put in a threedimensional map.
In the autonomous mode, the quadcopter loads a relevant map and matches the mapped objects to the currently visible ones. In this way, the quadcopter is able to estimate it position with a precision higher than conventional GPS.
Details on the navigation method are in the article: Krajnik et.al. : "Simple, Yet Stable Bearing Only Navigation", Journal of Field Robotics, Sep, 2010. ( A free version of the article can be obtained on http://labe.felk.cvut.cz/~tkrajnik or you can ask the main author for full paper by email). See http://labe.felk.cvut.cz/~tkrajnik/ardrone for details.

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• navigation
• helicopter

[hiluna84]

me too

Can have more information ?

My email : mefysto@live.fr

[imrfel]

The drone is navigated using the method described in Krajnik et.al. : "Simple, Yet Stable Bearing Only Navigation", Journal of Field Robotics, Sep, 2010.

[yangjunYJ]

Problem is that article is USD35, do u have anywhere else to obtain more information on it?

[pitou333]

I'd love to have more information too... Where we can find some please ?

[Ec130Rhine]

How can I get one for my ar drone with a gps too?

[rymannphilippe]

Hello

Do you have more Information about your project??? ingen@gmx.net

I'm very very interested to do the same.