Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Helicopter Robots

Although the HummBot project is far from finished, I do like to think about future projects from time to time. One idea that came to mind is to create an autonomous helicopter.
I found the following videos on youtube that gave some inspiration.

These guys have attached two colored balls to their helicopter such that a computer can follow the movements of the heli and make adjustements via the remote control.



In the following video an array of IR lights is aimed at the helicopter which has reflectors attached to it. This again allows a computer to track the movements and make adjustments via the remote control.