Vision-Based Indoor Helicopter Testbed

Introduction

Coming soon…

Publications

Shuo Han, Andrew D. Straw, Michael H. Dickinson, and Richard M. Murray, A Real-Time Helicopter Testbed for Insect-Inspired Visual Flight Control, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Kobe, Japan, May 2009. [PDF]

Related Videos

pd_3ch_1.jpg Hovers in place with only the throttle controlled manually. The aileron, elevator, and rudder are controlled by computer using 3 separate proportional-derivative (PD) controllers.
Download video: WMV (8.0 MB), AVI (41.7 MB)
* Videos from other trials are also available: 1, 2
pd_3ch_2.jpg Another video where the vision tracking system can be seen.
Download video: WMV (5.8 MB)
yaw_control_with_fsee.jpg Yaw rate control using estimation from a matched filter.
Download video: MP4 (4.2 MB)