Smartphones Power Flying Robots
Giuseppe Loianno, Yash Mulgaonkar, Chris Brunner, Dheeraj Ahuja, Arvind Ramanandan, Murali Chari, Serafin Diaz, Vijay Kumar

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Giuseppe Loianno, Yash Mulgaonkar, Chris Brunner, Dheeraj Ahuja, Arvind Ramanandan, Murali Chari, Serafin Diaz, Vijay Kumar. "Smartphones Power Flying Robots". Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, September 2015.

Abstract
Consumer grade technology seen in cameras and phones has led to the price/performance ratio of sensors and processors falling dramatically over the last decade. In particular, most devices are packaged with a camera, a gyroscope, and an accelerometer, important sensors for aerial robotics. The low mass and small form factor make them particularly well suited for autonomous flight with small flying robots, especially in GPS-denied environments. In this work, we present the first fully autonomous smartphone-based quadrotor. All the computation, sensing and control runs on an off-the-shelf smartphone, with all the software functionality in a smartphone app.We show how quadrotors can be stabilized and controlled to achieve autonomous flight in indoor buildings with application to smart homes, search and rescue, construction and architecture. The work allows any consumer with a smartphone to autonomously drive a quadrotor robot platform, even without GPS, by downloading an app, and concurrently build 3-D maps.

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  Giuseppe Loianno, Yash  Mulgaonkar, Chris Brunner, Dheeraj
  Ahuja, Arvind Ramanandan, Murali Chari, Serafin Diaz, Vijay
  Kumar. <a
  href="http://www.terraswarm.org/pubs/754.html"
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  <i>Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015
  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on</i>, September
  2015.

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  Giuseppe Loianno, Yash  Mulgaonkar, Chris Brunner, Dheeraj
  Ahuja, Arvind Ramanandan, Murali Chari, Serafin Diaz, Vijay
  Kumar. "Smartphones Power Flying Robots".
  <i>Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015
  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on</i>, September
  2015.

• BibTeX

  @article{LoiannoMulgaonkarBrunnerAhujaRamanandanChariDiazKumar15_SmartphonesPowerFlyingRobots,
      author = {Giuseppe Loianno and Yash  Mulgaonkar and Chris
                Brunner and Dheeraj Ahuja and Arvind Ramanandan
                and Murali Chari and Serafin Diaz and Vijay Kumar},
      title = {Smartphones Power Flying Robots},
      journal = {Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015
                IEEE/RSJ International Conference on},
      month = {September},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {Consumer grade technology seen in cameras and
                phones has led to the price/performance ratio of
                sensors and processors falling dramatically over
                the last decade. In particular, most devices are
                packaged with a camera, a gyroscope, and an
                accelerometer, important sensors for aerial
                robotics. The low mass and small form factor make
                them particularly well suited for autonomous
                flight with small flying robots, especially in
                GPS-denied environments. In this work, we present
                the first fully autonomous smartphone-based
                quadrotor. All the computation, sensing and
                control runs on an off-the-shelf smartphone, with
                all the software functionality in a smartphone
                app.We show how quadrotors can be stabilized and
                controlled to achieve autonomous flight in indoor
                buildings with application to smart homes, search
                and rescue, construction and architecture. The
                work allows any consumer with a smartphone to
                autonomously drive a quadrotor robot platform,
                even without GPS, by downloading an app, and
                concurrently build 3-D maps.},
      URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/754.html}
  }
  

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