Flying
Fast and Low Among Obstacles
For the past five years, a group led by Prof. Singh at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon has been involved in the DARPA MAV and OAV programs (in support of the FCS Class I and II UAVs). In March 2006 we demonstrated collision avoidance on board a low-flying (below 7m) helicopter flying at the Ft. Benning MOUT site at speeds up to 20 knots. The videos below document some of this work.
Team
Prof. Sanjiv Singh, Sebastian Scherer, Lyle Chamberlain, Srikanth Saripalli, Henele Adams
References
Sebastian Scherer, Sanjiv Singh, Lyle Chamberlain, Srikanth Saripalli, "Flying Fast and Low Among Obstacles," accepted to ICRA 2007.
Acknowledgements
This work was made possible by a sub-contract from Honeywell International Inc. under the DARPA OAV program.
Videos
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For the past five years, a group led by Prof. Singh at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon has been involved in the DARPA MAV and OAV programs (in support of the FCS Class I and II UAVs). In March 2006 we demonstrated collision avoidance on board a low-flying (below 7m) helicopter flying at the Ft. Benning MOUT site at speeds up to 20 knots. The videos below document some of this work.
Team
Prof. Sanjiv Singh, Sebastian Scherer, Lyle Chamberlain, Srikanth Saripalli, Henele Adams
References
Sebastian Scherer, Sanjiv Singh, Lyle Chamberlain, Srikanth Saripalli, "Flying Fast and Low Among Obstacles," accepted to ICRA 2007.
Acknowledgements
This work was made possible by a sub-contract from Honeywell International Inc. under the DARPA OAV program.
Videos
Note: The large videos may take a few minutes to load.
Collision Avoidance Demonstration Spring 2006 (120mb)
Avoiding 6mm wire (13mb)
Avoiding building at 20 knots (9mb)
Set-and-forget waypoint following with collision
avoidance (playback from telemetry) (98mb)
A simulated UAV equipped with 4 forward-facing radars
(9mb)