Professor Vijay Kumar and his team at the UPenn have created autonomous ground and aerial robots, designing bio-inspired algorithms for collective behaviors, and on robot swarms. In short, drones that can communicate with each other and dynamically coordinate an action.
Mechanical birds, aluminum snakes, dragonfly helicopters that sound like buzzing bees, remote controlled manta rays. They may look like toys, but they are incredible robots that may change the world.
Autonomous Aerial Vehicles research project is mainly focused around autonomous navigation of unmanned air vehicles. The challenge is to design systems, which exhibit a goal-driven behavior, while sensing and reacting to changing environment. This project is a collaboration between students and faculty from University of Pennsylvania and industry experts from Dragonfly Pictures, Inc.
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