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RC Barnstorming- Well Sort Of (Read 177 times)
Sep 11
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, 2003 at 10:50am
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I was just watching a Science News program. This episode was following students from the University of Waterloo (in Ontario) to an unusual RC competition in Georgia USA. There are several challenging corses to fly. The corse Waterloo chose to fly was an attempt to fly an RC aircraft through the open window of a building, take a picture of an object inside and fly out another window. Now here's the kicker, you have no control of the airplane. Several universities got involved in this competition. Their goal was to each build a complete robotic aircraft. The aircraft must be able locate its target, fly to its target, and complete its goal all without any human imput.
You can see the story here at
http://www.exn.ca/video/?Video=exn20030909-robo-plane.asx
There's more articles about this at
www.exn.ca
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Sep 11
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That is amazing! I wonder how long it will take before its done!
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Sep 11
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, 2003 at 1:51pm
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without even looking, this sounds like the MAV competition, which was held in Utah last year ?.....the task there is defined here .........
http://www.byu.edu/news/releases/archive02/Apr/miniairplane.htm
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Sep 11
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, 2003 at 3:01pm
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interesting...very,very,very interesting.
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