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The robots are used to replace humans in dangerous environments, the mission of VirtualRobotix in my dreams is to find resources and to invent new technologies to make sure that what you see in this video will never happen again !

Alpago 2010 - Sessioni di volo in FPV con Tittap123 e Jijuja from Duncan Drake on Vimeo.

As a harbinger for the Paramount film “Star Trek – Into Darkness”, starting in May in Europe’s cinemas, last night a swarm of 30 mini-helicopters equipped with the LED lights drew the Star Trek logo into the skies over London. The choreography for the show was developed by Ars Electronica Futurelab from Linz (Austria). Quadrocopter maker Ascending Technologies GmbH from Munich (Germany) provided the aircrafts.

30 LED-equipped mini-helicopters, for its four rotors also called quadrocopters, started last night to a spectacular show: They drew the Star Trek logo into the night sky over the city of London. Film producer Paramount had commissioned the flying light sculpture.

http://www.suasnews.com/2013/03/21782/quadrocopter-swarm-as-a-harbinger-of-paramounts-star-trek-into-darkness/

PIANFORMOSA 26 6 2010 promo from Tittap123 on Vimeo.

Thank to Mario for this beautiful day and Tittap for his Great Video :)

Roberto

Dear Friends,

I would buy a new computer for my 3D Groundstation ... What do you think about the Commodore 64.

I put it in my wish list ;)

Best Roberto

Festo has demonstrated it's capabilities again. No flying dolphin this time, no flying jellyfish, ...

Original post by : Kris Nackaerts www.diydrones.com

I am continuing the ArmQuad software development.
I believe that soon I will release a ACRO software version with performance that can be seen in these 2 videos.

Ringrazio Roberto per aver creato questa community, aggregatrice di persone e idee che dimostrano nei vari loro progetti e sperimentazioni che anche l' Italia puo' dire la sua in questo ambito.

Saluti a tutti

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/16/helicopter-crashes-central-london-vauxhall helicopter crashes in London at 08.40 ! of course it doesn't happen every day that an helicopter crashes right in the middle of towns ! BUT thinking to Unmanned which we would like to free operate, to the severeal configurations available on the market, to operations carried out as often is seen in YouTube or others social netowrks dedicated to amatorial unmanned it is once more demonstrated that a type certification is a MUST for security of all and for the future of the sector, being that Unmanned for civilian applications are requested to fly right in the middle of our town for surveys, above people for events etc...

Entries for Sparkfun's 2011 Autonomous Vehicle Competition are now open. The event is on April 23rd in Boulder, Colorado at Sparkfun HQ. This is the third year of the AVC. In the first year a DIY Drones team came in first, in the second year we (Doug Weibel!) came in second. Let's not make this an arithmetic pattern!

Here are the new rules for aircraft. Looks like precision landings, low altitude, and autonomous (no hands) take-offs will be winning tactics. Hello, quadcopters!

Air Vehicle Rules:

• Must also go around all four exterior walls of the building.
• The lap time will be calculated from when the Judge says 'Go' to when the plane comes to a halt in the back parking lot. A landing (autonomous or manned) outside the rear parking lot will disqualify the lap time.
• Weather permitting, balloons on long freaking strings will be launched from the four corners of the building. The balloons will serve as guides for the judges/competitors as to the location of the corners/walls of which the non-ground vehicles must circumnavigate.
• Regardless of weather/wind, the vehicles must clear the four exterior walls/corners of the building (not the balloons), verification of clearing the vertical plane will be up to the four line judges.
• Autonomous take off is worth a 10 second reduction from raw time.
• Wheel carriages are allowed for aircraft that don't have their own wheels. Human assisted take-off (throwing a plane) is not considered autonomous.
• Autonomous landing (coming to a halt) within the indicated box is worth a 30 second reduction in time
• Within SFE back lot parking area (not in the box, but must be on our blacktop) gets a 10 second reduction in raw time.
• Time reductions will also be awarded for the three planes that have the lowest peak altitude. To calculate this altitude, SFE will have devices available (likely made up of DEV-09530, SEN-09694 and PRT-00731, came in at 6.71g), weighing no more that 15 grams, to be placed on the UAV by the Judge via double-sided tape on the day of the race. A 60 second reduction goes to the lowest peak, 30 seconds for the second lowest, and 15 seconds for the third lowest. Competitors may also opt not to carry these devices and forego the possibility of a reduced time.

Original Post : Chris A.

I'm trying the stable mode with the accelerometer.

I'm surprised this hasn't been posted here given it's raising a lot of discussion elsewhere in regards to flying safely and it's safety month here.

Discussions on other forums have gone from 'what an idiot' to 'what a great job of being prepared and doing the right thing'. Personally, I thought it was a very good example of doing the right thing. The pilot was no where near the crowd and flying only over water where there was no chance of hurting anyone if anything went wrong, which it did. They had CAA approval being right next to the London city airport.

More information about the event including how a diver recovered the camera on the UAS Vision website.