OpenIoT & ELC 2016

With all the talk of integrating drones into civilian airspace, there is need for better safety and GPS-agnostic navigation methods - visual navigation and obstacle avoidance is paramount to integrating drones (micro-aerial-vehicles, MAVs) into our cities and elsewhere, because external navigation aids cannot be relied on in every situation, and neither can pilot experience. In this presentation, Mohammed Kabir will outline the current situation in the industry, discuss the challenges of a real-world implementation of the proposition, and finally demonstrate how an open-source aerial robot can be designed from ground up to meet this challenge.The implementation part of the talk will focus on visual navigation, mapping, obstacle avoidance and high-definition video streaming.