Accessible Aerial Autonomy

Colloquium

Speaker(s)
Zach Dodds, Lilian de Greef, Brad Jensen, and Kim Sheely
Date
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Time
4:15 PM – 5:30 PM
Location
Galileo Pryne

Could the ARDrone (an inexpensive RC quadcopter) serve as a useful robot for autonomous aerial tasks? This summer, we asked this question by experimenting with the drone in a number of such tasks. This talk will describe some of the successful—and the less successful—outcomes of those investigations.