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Autonomous Navigation For Flying Robots Why Quadrotors?: Jürgen Sturm Technische Universität München

This document discusses a lecture on autonomous navigation for quadrotors. It provides examples of potential applications for flying robots like quadrotors, including search and rescue missions, building inspections, roof inspections, bridge inspections, precision agriculture, mapping, and transportation. However, current solutions require skilled human pilots. The goal of the course is to increase the autonomy of flying robots by developing techniques like automatic attitude control, semi-autonomous control of height, position and navigation, and fully autonomous waypoint navigation and path planning.

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Autonomous Navigation For Flying Robots Why Quadrotors?: Jürgen Sturm Technische Universität München

This document discusses a lecture on autonomous navigation for quadrotors. It provides examples of potential applications for flying robots like quadrotors, including search and rescue missions, building inspections, roof inspections, bridge inspections, precision agriculture, mapping, and transportation. However, current solutions require skilled human pilots. The goal of the course is to increase the autonomy of flying robots by developing techniques like automatic attitude control, semi-autonomous control of height, position and navigation, and fully autonomous waypoint navigation and path planning.

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Computer Vision Group

Prof. Daniel Cremers


Autonomous Navigation for Flying Robots

Lecture 1.2:
Why Quadrotors?


Jrgen Sturm
Technische Universitt Mnchen
Motivation
Imagine you have a flying camera
What would you use it for?
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Motivation
Imagine you have a flying camera
What would you use it for?
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Applications
Search and rescue missions
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Applications
Building inspections after earth quakes
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Applications
Roof inspection
Bridge inspection
Precision agriculture/remote farming
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Applications
Mapping of buildings
Architecture
Factory planning
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Applications
Transportation
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Amazon
Dominos
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?
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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, )

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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


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