Lakeside Labs and NES institute of the Alpen-Adria-Universität are working on autonomous multi-robot systems. The research focuses on the organization and communication during an exploration of indoor environments. Such autonomous systems may keep humans from entering hazardous environments by exploring it first. The implementation of wireless communication between robots without having to rely on pre-installed communication hardware, such as wireless routers or cellular networks is one of the tasks. The newly created communication modules are used to exchange local maps produced by robots and to merge these local maps to a common global map. The video shows how our approach works. For further information please contact: http://www.lakeside-labs.com
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Lakeside Labs and NES institute of the Alpen-Adria-Universität are working on autonomous multi-robot systems. The research focuses on the organization and communication during an exploration of indoor environments. Such autonomous systems may keep humans from entering hazardous environments by exploring it first. The implementation of wireless communication between robots without having to rely on pre-installed communication hardware, such as wireless routers or cellular networks is one of the tasks. The newly created communication modules are used to exchange local maps produced by robots and to merge these local maps to a common global map. The video shows how our approach works. For further information please contact: http://www.lakeside-labs.com
Lightscribe -- writing with light -- An idea of our trainees could be realized in a few days -- or better to say -- nights. We exported text and graphics as vectors and computed optimized route plans for our Microdrone MD4 UAV. The projective camera model was considered in the route planning, thus the UAV was flying always at the same altitude but the result exposed to the spectators at the computed position on the ground was upright and almost free of distortions. For drawing on the sky we replaced the camera module by a custom ciruit powering two 3.5 Watts LED lamps combined with an alloy reflector to make the light even visible on sunny days.
For saving the idea's output we did long time exposures over the whole flight, for more than six minutes, which results in gorgeous pictures.
More pictures can be found in the cDrones gallery: http://goo.gl/qstZX
Research on self-organizing networked systems SD
Lakeside Labs and NES institute of the Alpen-Adria-Universität are working on autonomous multi-robot systems. The research focuses on the organization and communication during an exploration of indoor environments. Such autonomous systems may keep humans from entering hazardous environments by exploring it first. The implementation of wireless communication between robots without having to rely on pre-installed communication hardware, such as wireless routers or cellular networks is one of the tasks. The newly created communication modules are used to exchange local maps produced by robots and to merge these local maps to a common global map. The video shows how our approach works. For further information please contact: http://www.lakeside-labs.com
