We here describe an application of a quadrocopter hovering stably above a person wearing a cap with 4 infrared LEDs. The application has originally been developed in the context of wearable computing. Our "wearable helicopter'' hovers above the user. In further work, the system could send a birds-eye view of the area to the operator, while the robot follows autonomously. The entire aerial robot works autonomously, all processing is done onboard. We use a miniature quadrocopter with an inertial measurement unit and a low-cost Wii remote camera, i.e., commodity consumer hardware. This proof of concept gives an insight into flight control and some experiments.
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@inproceedings{Wenzel2010b,
author = {Karl Engelbert Wenzel and Andreas Masselli and Andreas Zell},
title = {{A Quadrocopter Hovering above a Person Wearing a Modified Cap}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Flight
Competition},
year = {2010},
pages = {1-7},
address = {Braunschweig, Germany},
publisher = {DGON},
abstract = {We here describe an application of a quadrocopter hovering stably
above a person wearing a cap with 4 infrared LEDs. The application
has originally been developed in the context of wearable computing.
Our ``wearable helicopter'' hovers above the user. In further work,
the system could send a birds-eye view of the area to the operator,
while the robot follows autonomously. The entire aerial robot works
autonomously, all processing is done onboard. We use a miniature
quadrocopter with an inertial measurement unit and a low-cost Wii
remote camera, i.e., commodity consumer hardware. This proof of concept
gives an insight into flight control and some experiments.},
url = {http://www.cogsys.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/publikationen/2010/Wenzel2010imav.pdf}
}