Interesting... star trackers have been around since the 50s and inertial navigation / SLAM is pretty plug and play these days. Looks like the unique thing they are going after is spoofing GPS so that a consumer drone can fly in a GPS denied environ. Neat, but a bit dubious as an investment.
It is open-source so it can be used by both sides to kill each other, or to assassinate a well-protected political figure, or to inflict damage on a crowd.
so it uses computer vision to recognize objects like mountain, sea, land, buildings and figure out its relative position?
this is a pretty robust approach except when visibility allows it. wonder if lidar + CV would work better here rather than a pure CV approach
nonetheless its an interesting approach as in some jurisdictions you need a permit to operate a drone, something autonomous like this could work without involving bureaucracy
Lidar would reveal your drone existence and location to the, ummm, "park rangers" when you are “delivering supplies” to “lost hikers” in GPS-denied environment.
>nonetheless its an interesting approach as in some jurisdictions you need a permit to operate a drone, something autonomous like this could work without involving bureaucracy
lmfao permits are for law-abiding meat-bags; my swarm follows me autonomously, officer.
