Robot Landing Platform Formation

The Khepera robots put on their hats to give their quadrotor friend a place to land.

This is an extension on the algorithm shown in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se318w.... The difference is that here we are building moving formations, with a leader robot that acts independently. The followers use the same assignment and formation control algorithm to build and maintain formations with the leader.

By making a tight box formation, the ground robots build a mobile landing platform that the quadrotor can land on. For more information, check out the project web page: http://www.tedmacdonald.com/projects/...

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[kydrice]

It's like watching the baby videos of our future overlords CUTE!

[crackonweed]

but will it blend?!

[Coasting2012]

Very cool, and freak'n wierd - unnatural.

[guitarcat5]

Which one is Jeremy Clarkson in?....  I only asked!

[Abram Rex Joaquin]

Generation. Relative. Initial. Termination. Sequence

GRITS Lab!!!!

oh My Gosh... I just hope it's for a better world... not the end of it... :)

Go Mech Eng.'s and I.T's :D

[stopmotionrobot]

10 people we're high when they watched this

[stopmotionrobot]

cool, you guys are basicly working on boats with landing pads on them that can connect together to get choppers with low fuel from the sky onto a landing spot without personnel?

[TheeAirworks]

scary , you guys are working to destroying the world////

[iiinsaiii]

Oh man. Really cool. Wow! You could us this in many different ways. Unman tanks with air support. Or for farming. So many uses. Real good work. Two thumbs up

[Justin Thompson]

Awesome.

[yurianne07]

might have military applications, just a guess. like those areo-planes i hear about...

[lolziloveminecraft]

that's awesome