http://www.beam-wiki.org/2007/02/13/mini-heli-bot-beamish/ All about BEAM Robotics and help to build your BEAM Robot! Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:49:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.beam-wiki.org/2007/02/13/mini-heli-bot-beamish/#comment-13144 Steve Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:59:58 +0000 http://www.beam-wiki.org/2007/02/13/mini-heli-bot-beamish/#comment-13144 Hi, This Franceschini's work is quite old now. This helicopter can't really fly autonomously, instead it is fixed by a sort of arm, but it can go up and down. The purpose of this work is to use a special electronic device similar to a fly eye. Then, navigation of this small helicopter is based on "optical flow", which stand basically that, the more the movement seen is fast, the more the object is near, and inversely. So with this very simple principle we can easily avoid obstacle or, even fly... This system doesn't use BEAM technology, but somehow it uses BEAM principles as it is "bio-inspired robotic". Hi,
This Franceschini’s work is quite old now. This helicopter can’t really fly autonomously, instead it is fixed by a sort of arm, but it can go up and down.
The purpose of this work is to use a special electronic device similar to a fly eye. Then, navigation of this small helicopter is based on “optical flow”, which stand basically that, the more the movement seen is fast, the more the object is near, and inversely.
So with this very simple principle we can easily avoid obstacle or, even fly…
This system doesn’t use BEAM technology, but somehow it uses BEAM principles as it is “bio-inspired robotic”.

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