Flight of the Blue Phoenix

The first flight of the Blue Phoenix 2.
10 April 2010

Towards Masters Thesis research in Autonomous 3D Map Generation, this experiment tested the flight worthiness of the airframe (SiG Rascal) and the UAV's ability to control an onboard camera from the ground and receive live video back to Earth. It is the researcher's hope that eventually, video like this will be rapidly processed into 3D terrain maps thanks to on-going efforts to improve structure from motion algorithms like the work done by the UNC 3D Vision Group.

David Billingsley is part of the Morpheus Lab of the University of Maryland Aerospace Department. This group a key member of the National Institute of Aerospace, headquartered in Hampton, VA.
www.nianet.org
http://www.morpheus.umd.edu/research/systems/3d-map.html

All music by Kevin MacLeod, available at incompetech.com
Songs in order of appearance:
Achilles, Faceoff, Exciting Trailer, Impact Allegretto, Zap Beat, Disco Lounge

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• UAV
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
• RC
• Plane
• Autonomous Map Making
• 3D Map Generation
• Flying
• First Flight
• structure from motion
• SLAM
• RANSAC
• systems integration

[jamesacramer]

How will you generate 3D