Hi Lee & SWR list,
You may be interested to hear I will be using flying robots to explore
the ice caves on Mt Erebus this December as part of my PhD project at
New Mexico Tech. I am currently testing an xAircraft X650 frame with the
open-source ArduPilotMega 2 flight controller. I hope to purchase a
Hokyo lidar which I will either mount on the xAircraft frame, or if I
can find sufficient funding ($12,500) I would like to purchase the
Ascending Technologies SLAM Pelican system. My current research is on
Erebus but I would of course use this system in traditional karst as
well. I've done plenty of traditional cave surveying, and some cave
lidar surveying, and think that quadcopter-mounted lidar systems are a
great solution, and the technology is here already. I have an old blog
post here: http://www.diydrones.com/xn/detail/705844:BlogPost:839613
Feel free to get in touch with me if you are interested, or have
suggestions for further funding sources.
Cheers,
Aaron
On 08/27/2012 07:57 PM, Lee H. Skinner wrote:
Discovery news article:
http://tinyurl.com/8jkgvbx
Now can't you imagine a bunch of robots exploring leads in
Lechuguilla? :-)
Lee Skinner
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