Look no motion capture rig, aggressive manouvres onboard processing

So far we have only seen quads doing really impressive stuff in motion capture rigs, cheating almost.

The control planning and estimation tasks are solved based on the information provided by a single camera and an IMU.

It shows aggressive trajectories around poles and narrow window gaps at different inclinations. Our system is able to traverse narrow gaps requiring accelerations up to 1.5 g and roll and pitch angles up to 90 degrees with velocities of 5 m/s.

This is quite a big deal and in a very small system. I’m guessing this will be a Christmas 2018 or Phantom 6 feature.

I bet an orderly queue of suitors is forming to buy a slice of this technology. Me thinks only two players could afford it.