In recent years, flying robots such as miniature helicopters or quadrotors have received a large gain in popularity. Potential applications range from aerial filming over remote visual inspection to automatic 3D reconstruction of buildings. Navigating a quadrotor manually requires a skilled pilot and constant concentration.
Therefore, there is a strong scientific interest to develop solutions that enable quadrotors to fly autonomously and without constant human supervision. This is a challenging research problem because the payload of a quadrotor is uttermost constrained and so both the quality of the onboard sensors and the available computing power is strongly limited.
Here you will be introduced to the basic concepts for autonomous navigation for quadrotors including topics such as probabilistic state estimation, linear control, and path planning. You will learn how to infer the position of the quadrotor from its sensor readings, how to navigate along a series of waypoints, and how to plan collision free trajectories.
20. How can we estimate the robot motion?
Control-based models predict the estimated motion from
the issued control commands
Odometry-based models are used when systems are
Equipped with distance sensors (e.g., wheel encoders)
Velocity-based models have to be applied when no wheel
encoders are given.
22. Best Practices (Robot Architecture):
Modular
Robust
De-centralized
Hardware and software abstraction
Provide introspection
Data logging and playback
Easy to learn and to extend
Provides infrastructure
Open-source: ROS (Robot OS )
Player/Stage, CARMEN, YARP
Closed-source: Microsoft Robotics
23. Pix4 Flow Sensor
Algorithm:
1) Image Acquisition
2) Image Correction
3) Feature Detection
4) Estimate Optical Flow field
5) Obtain correlation
6) Check for Tracking errors
7) Use Kalman Filter for state estimation distribution maintenance.
25. 1) Search and Rescue operations.
2) Building Inspection after Earth quake
3) Bridge inspection
4) Roof inspection
5) Precision Agriculture.
6) Mapping of buildings
7) Architecture
8) Transportation
9) Building planning
Quadrotors with Thermal cameras for forest fire prevention
Quadrotor with Nuclear detection device
Painting seeds
1) Limited flight time
2) Legal Regulations
3) Prone to Hacking
30. As there is a Potential for using Quadcopters in Many Fields it is up to
Candidates to think of Where they can be efficiently used. Making It
more Stable Is also Important.