Autonomous heli

More good work from the brains at MIT. This is kind of like my ongoing quadrotor project, except in a working state. Made by a group out of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, CSAIL, the focus is more on the autonomous aspect of navigating an indoor environment, one where GPS in not available, a so-called GPS-denied environment. It’s tricky but doable as they demonstrate using LIDAR to construct a model of the space from a whole bunch of laser measurements. Throw in some A.I. and you’re good to go.