Quadrotor Surveillance

Robust perching and landing with quadrotors for surveillance. Work done at the University of Pennsylvania, GRASP Lab.

Here is a link to the paper: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~dmel/IPLCmellinger.pdf

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• quadrotor
• GRASP
• camera
• UPenn
• perching

[Fandalg]

It needs a sensor that can smell fear.

[GTR4Live]

Think I have to get this insane automatic paintball gun in my yard then^^

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[revjimbob]

That bit at 0:35 scares the shit out of me.

[Razer1103]

I imagine it would actually have to be much quieter to be used stealthily.

[musicResistances]

@flagwatch You are missing the point. Bombs are MADE to kill people. Knifes are not. Like these things here(Quadrotor) they can be used both as a mean to transpass someone's liberties or with a noble way. When someone is inventing something , he/she doesn't have to think all the possible ways that it can be used so that he would know if he has the responsibility in case something bad happens. He/she would just offer his/her invention to the world and then the responsibility is upon the user.

[LEFTYM0M65]

Dude! Use your powers for good. Please!

[mepizzasmangled]

once a gain where fucked

[flagwatch]

@musicResistances My point was that your attempt to co-opt Einstein into your argument precisely missed the point. He himself felt he bore responsibility, so why are you saying people shouldn't consider the future consequences of their actions if they bear the mystical mantle of "scientist"?

Let's up the ante on your knife salesman. Let's consider McDonnell-Douglas. Do you want them selling more bombers to the US military? "It's just a tool! It can be used by anyone!"

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[TheMasterpiece911]

THE HACKS!!!

[musicResistances]

@flagwatch Ok. let's compare a scientist with a knife maker. The both offer something that can be used both as goog and bad. So you say that knife makers should be careful who they are selling their knives to?

[flagwatch]

@musicResistances Einstein later felt it had been his "one great mistake" writing the letter to Roosevelt and signed the Russell–Einstein Manifesto a few days before he died.

Scientists have an obligation to consider the moral dimensions of their work.

"'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department', says Wernher von Braun."

[Ifitallfails]

When the propulsion gets updated you will have these things flying on their own and landing in docking stations for refuel auto. Might use this for bad? But I'd like it to fly me to work.