Quadrocopter Ball Juggling, ETH Zurich

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Published by Sergei Lupashin at 03/28/2011 11:22 Like

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Ball juggling experiments with quadrotors in the ETH Flying Machine Arena

By Mark Müller, Sergei Lupashin and Raffaello D'Andrea

http://www.flyingmachinearena.org
IDSC, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Common question: This is not human-piloted (please see the overview vid). The vehicles/ball are tracked by an overhead motion capture system and controlled by a pair of computers.

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Latest comments

pepe potamo, at 06/09/2013 15:24, says:
Wooow
DevilNymph, at 05/23/2013 21:42, says:
It's not. I saw them.
Donghyung Kim, at 05/07/2013 14:57, says:
It's really nice!
MsYaDong, at 04/24/2013 19:05, says:
Fake vdo
Julio Wong, at 04/20/2013 07:38, says:
MQ-27 Dragonfire Inbound
SamuelLPrime, at 04/17/2013 22:18, says:
keep telling that to yourself, but don't come back to us crying when it travels back in time trying to kill you because you're lying about John Connor's location
samlovemetal, at 04/17/2013 20:28, says:
Soon these will have spinning razors attached to them and will ambush us when we enter the sewers.
Dian Istining, at 04/05/2013 17:29, says:
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Alias Cummins, at 03/19/2013 00:00, says:
But can it do a Mills Mess?
Mark Richardson, at 03/15/2013 13:56, says:
Ummm that doesn't make any sense. If each robot had the ability to throw without variation they would a) >>never<< miss or b) at least go for significantly longer than what I see here. Since they are reacting to flight path path based on algorithms that approximate velocity, arc to get them...close enough, they are prone to errors. Two humans would be able to play catch a lot longer than 10-15 passes. Human and quad would play longer as our catch algorithm is superior e.g. baseball players
hansebee, at 03/03/2013 11:17, says:
for the robots it is in fact easier to play the ball to one another than to counter a ball thrown by a human, as the ball's flight path becomes predictable for the robots without any illogical human involvement :-D one of the creators talked about it in a documentary dealing with hoax videos that turned out to be true on TV yesterday
TheGhazalll, at 03/02/2013 19:09, says:
This is one one the most beautiful ideas i've eVer seen! :D
PyeColin, at 02/27/2013 18:18, says:
I'd not have called it "juggling" with just one ball... that's more like "catch". Still, very impressive, though. I wonder how crazy it would be to try this with balloons, especially with the air currents from the quads themselves!
jwsmite, at 02/24/2013 12:04, says:
i'd like a fully live action remake of the film batteries not included please
Dmitrij Bugajev, at 02/23/2013 09:45, says:
Looks like a level from Half-Life.
MissCoolenium, at 02/22/2013 06:27, says:
so adoreable!
Igor Gabrielan, at 01/29/2013 16:40, says:
I started to do a site PRAI - Portal of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence pr.ai
Вова Беляев, at 01/29/2013 16:37, says:
ЗАЕБИСЬ
Shounak Gujarathi, at 01/20/2013 15:59, says:
i'm gonna give a seminar on AI applications in my college.. Quadrocopter clips are gonna make the audience go 'wow' for me :D
rabbitsib, at 01/04/2013 02:04, says:
Now. Can they fight?
WithnessHell, at 12/26/2012 01:19, says:
Freaky shizzle
lozomex, at 12/19/2012 19:28, says:
That's totally incredible!
max carter, at 12/07/2012 11:41, says:
Skynet
Victor Vrublevsky, at 11/29/2012 11:58, says:
Ну ни чего себе развлечение))) Класс!
xXTheChaoticGamersXx, at 11/26/2012 13:26, says:
really cool where do you buy them