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Quad Formation Flying at University of Pennsylvania GRASP Lab

Russ Curry

23 Sep 2011

The General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab at the University of Pennsylvania just posted this impressive video of their latest work in planning and control for heterogeneous quadrotor teams in environments with obstacles. The work was done by Daniel Mellinger, Alex Kushleyev, and Vijay Kumar. Mid-sized Quad was purchased from Ascending Technologies; the smallest and biggest quads developed by Alex Kushleyev and Max Likhachev.

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