At Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale’s Laboratory of Intelligence Systems<http://lis.epfl.ch/>in Lausanne, Sabine Hauert, Severin Leven and Dario Floreano have found a way to make small, fixed-wing machines fly together, migrate and avoid crashing. The swarms can be used for imaging and mapping the ground. In the future they may fly on search and surveillance missions.
----- The robots were built by senseFly <http://www.sensefly.com/>, a Swiss startup founded in late 2009, as a spin-off of the work done at the Floreano’s lab. The bots communicate with each other via a simple WiFi dongle connected to the on-board Linux computer that runs the autopilot program. In this project, Hauert and Floreano searched for the best balance between the robots’ weight, cost, turning ability and the range of their communications, while keeping their ability to flock. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/flocking-robots/ Joseph
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