Flying over uneven moving terrain based on optic-flow cues without any need for reference frames or accelerometers

Fabien Expert; Franck Ruffier

doi:10.1088/1748-3182/10/2/026003

Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

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Flying over uneven moving terrain based on optic-flow cues without any need for reference frames or accelerometers

Fabien Expert¹ and Franck Ruffier¹

Published 26 February 2015 • © 2015 IOP Publishing Ltd
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Volume 10, Number 2 Citation Fabien Expert and Franck Ruffier 2015 Bioinspir. Biomim. 10 026003 DOI 10.1088/1748-3182/10/2/026003

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Video 1: Performance of the BeeRotor I robot equipped with CurvACE over unsteady terrain and under several decades of illuminance (10.1 MB MP4)

Video 2: Improved performances of the BeeRotor II robot flying over highly unsteady environment including a steeply sloping obstacle. Even when the airspeed sensor was removed, the aerial robot was able to follow terrain and land automatically. (8.6 MB MP4)

Flying over uneven moving terrain based on optic-flow cues without any need for reference frames or accelerometers

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