Students in MIT's Robust Robotics program have defied the laws of airplanes.
They have created a robotic
airplane that can fly at high speeds, through obstacles, using only
on-board sensors. And it's doing all that without benefit of GPS. The
students set out to create "autonomous plane navigation in confined
spaces," and that's exactly what they did.
Using a laser rangefinder, the plane calculates 15 different variables while in flight -- keeping it from crashing into things.
The MIT researchers completed a
serious of flight tests around pillars in the parking garage under their
labs. The plane worked like a charm -- gliding and threading, almost
blindly, around the structures.
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