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  • Monocular Vision Based SLAM of Micro Indoor Helicopter

    Posted by admin on September 15th, 2009 and filed under helicopter aerospace | 1 Comment »

    Information Infrastructure Institute (iCUBE)
    Aerospace Robotics Laboratory

    Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Prof. Soon-Jo Chung)
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Prof. Arun K. Somani)
    Iowa State University

    Improved results are coming soon at
    https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/sjchung/www/index.html

    Duration : 0:1:10

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    Loki’s First Flight

    Posted by admin on September 9th, 2009 and filed under flight aerospace | 3 Comments »

    This is the first flight of Loki, the UAV that my design team has been designing and building since August 2006.

    Duration : 0:8:40

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    Indoor vision-based navigation of a helicopter UAV/ MAV

    Posted by admin on September 3rd, 2009 and filed under helicopter aerospace | No Comments »

    Information Infrastructure Institute (iCUBE)
    Aerospace Robotics Laboratory

    Department of Aerospace Engineering
    (Prof. Soon-Jo Chung)
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Prof. Arun K. Somani)
    Iowa State University

    Koray Celik, Soon-Jo Chung, and Arun Somani, “MVCSLAM: Mono-Vision Corner SLAM for Autonomous Micro-Helicopters in GPS Denied Environments,” Proc. of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit, Honolulu, HI, August 2008, AIAA-2008-6670.

    Duration : 0:3:24

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    Aggressor II Industrial Helicopter UAV- Joystick Mode

    Posted by admin on August 15th, 2009 and filed under helicopter aerospace | No Comments »

    Aggressor II helicopter UAV demonstration of isted mode (or pilot directed mode) using a joystick. This helicopter UAV is a joint product of Viking Aerospace and Leptron Robotic Helicopters.

    Duration : 0:8:13

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    UAV Permaisuri UPMX Malaysia

    Posted by admin on August 12th, 2009 and filed under aerospace watches | No Comments »

    Come visit us at: www.geocities.com/asmara.aerospace/. Hi Guys, this video was made in 2004 for the members in my UAV team.Nice souvenir to keep and watch 20years down the road for us.Perhaps its kind of nice to put it up in YouTube. UPMX was the successful prototype used before our best selling RJX1 was created.

    Duration : 0:9:45

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    Aggressor II Helicopter UAV Mission Mode

    Posted by admin on August 9th, 2009 and filed under helicopter aerospace | No Comments »

    This video shows the Aggressor II UAV (joint product of Viking Aerospace and Leptron Industrial Helicopters) performing automatic takeoff, stop waypoints, cruise waypoints, auto homing mode, and automatic landing in light winds (~15-20 mph winds).

    Duration : 0:4:15

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    Vanderbilt Aerospace Club – POC2 Maiden Flight

    Posted by admin on August 3rd, 2009 and filed under aerospace landing gear | No Comments »

    This is the maiden flight of the 2nd Proof of Concept UAV (aka POC2) built by the Vanderbilt Aerospace Club during the 2008-2009 academic year. The aircraft has a 4′-wingspan, retractable landing gear, and is designed with a folding propeller, rotating wing, and folding V-tails in order to fit inside the team’s 16′-tall rocket. More information can be found at the Vanderbilt Aerospace Club website:
    http://www.vanderbilt.edu/USLI

    Duration : 0:1:39

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