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Computer Vision Group Prof. Daniel Cremers Autonomous Navigation for Flying Robots Lecture 1.2: Why Quadrotors? Jürgen Sturm Technische Universität München
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Motivation Imagine you have a flying camera What would you use it for? Jürgen Sturm Autonomous Navigation for Flying Robots 2
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Motivation Imagine you have a flying camera What would you use it for? Jürgen Sturm Autonomous Navigation for Flying Robots 3 cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by ADT 04: http://flickr.com/photos/alpesdehauteprovence-tourisme/12340954723/http://gopro.com/camera-mounts/chest-mount-harness
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Motivation Imagine you have a flying camera What would you use it for? Jürgen Sturm Autonomous Navigation for Flying Robots 4 http://gopro.com/camera-mounts/chest-mount-harness
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Motivation Imagine you have a flying camera What would you use it for? Jürgen Sturm Autonomous Navigation for Flying Robots 5 cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by Salvadhor: http://flickr.com/photos/salvadhor/321404675/ Nockewell / pixelio.de http://gopro.com/camera-mounts/head-strap-mount
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Applications Search and rescue missions Jürgen Sturm Autonomous Navigation for Flying Robots 6 By dahu1 (Camptocamp.org) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo by Karilyn Kempton: http://flickr.com/photos/thestoke/3183668366/
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Applications Building inspections after earth quakes Jürgen Sturm Autonomous Navigation for Flying Robots 7 http://www.nifti.eu/news/photo-album-of-mirandola-mission-on-facebook
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Applications Roof inspection Bridge inspection Precision agriculture/remote farming Jürgen Sturm Autonomous Navigation for Flying Robots 8 cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by kundalini: http://flickr.com/photos/kundalini/2117648520/ cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by Washington State Dept of...: http://flickr.com/photos/wsdot/3379758425/ European Commssion, http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/flipbook/rpas/files/ assets/common/downloads/publication.pdf
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Applications Mapping of buildings Architecture Factory planning Jürgen Sturm Autonomous Navigation for Flying Robots 9 Thomas Siepmann / pixelio.de cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo by Granger Meador: http://flickr.com/photos/gmeador/394068970/
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Applications Transportation Jürgen Sturm Autonomous Navigation for Flying Robots 10 Amazon Domino’s
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Quadrotors Many useful applications Large commercial potential Problem: Current solutions require skilled human pilots Motivating question in this course: How can we increase the autonomy of flying robots? Jürgen Sturm Autonomous Navigation for Flying Robots 11
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Autonomous Navigation Many of these applications would benefit of an increased autonomy Different levels of autonomy Manual flight (automatic attitude) Semi autonomous (height control, position control, automatic takeoff/landing, obstacle avoidance, …) Fully autonomous (waypoint navigation, path planning, exploration, people following, …) Jürgen Sturm Autonomous Navigation for Flying Robots 12
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Interactive Exercise What would you like to use an autonomous quadrotor for? Propose one or more ideas for realization Vote for your favorite idea Discuss in the forum: What are the particular challenges? How large is the commercial potential? We will discuss the three most popular ideas next week Jürgen Sturm Autonomous Navigation for Flying Robots 13
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