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LINUX POWERS AIRBORNE BOTS
from Wired News
British researchers are turning to Linux and embedded processors to build
a fleet of tiny, robotic helicopters capable of swarming like angry bees
and evaluating their surroundings with a single hive mind.
The University of Essex's UltraSwarm project is an experiment in swarm
intelligence and wireless cluster computing that might one day spawn
military surveillance applications. In one scenario, a flock of unmanned
aerial vehicles, or UAVs, with video cameras could take in a hostile
landscape from a variety of angles and process the image locally, in the
sky.
For their proof of concept, the researchers are using lightweight $69
Proxflyer Bladerunner toy helicopters equipped with gumstix processors --
tiny self-contained computers weighing 8 grams (0.28 ounces), but packing
enough power to run the Linux 2.6 kernel and communicate over a built-in
Bluetooth module.
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