Chapter 26 — Flying Robots

sFly: Visual-inertial SLAM for a small helicopter in large outdoor environments

This video presents indicative results from the sFly project (www.sfly.org) involving fully autonomous flights with a small helicopter, performing autonomous flights in previously unknown, large outdoor spaces. The video appears in IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2012.
Markus W. Achtelik
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Autonomous Systems Lab (http://www.asl.ethz.ch)