{"id":10727,"date":"2015-08-21T08:39:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T12:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?p=10727"},"modified":"2015-08-21T08:39:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T12:39:48","slug":"firefly-low-cost-flying-robot-autonomous-navigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/firefly-low-cost-flying-robot-autonomous-navigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefly is a low-cost flying robot with autonomous navigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Mihir Garimella<\/strong><\/em> is participating in the 2015 Hackaday Prize with his <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.io\/project\/7139-firefly-a-low-cost-flying-robot-to-save-lives\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Firefly<\/strong><\/a>, an ARM Cortex processor powered low-cost flying robot\u00a0with autonomous navigation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10729\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/firefly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10729\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10729\" alt=\"Firefly robot\" src=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/firefly.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/firefly.jpg 580w, https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/firefly-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/firefly-90x90.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefly robot<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Firefly changes this. Firefly is a low-cost (~$200), open-source flying robot platform for first responders. It includes a base layer of generic algorithms for completely autonomous flight\u2014algorithms for avoiding obstacles and efficiently searching for targets\u2014that are based on how organisms in nature solve the problems of perception and navigation. Users can plug in application-specific modules containing sensors (e.g., thermal cameras for finding people or gas sensors for finding fires or hazardous chemicals) that work with this algorithmic layer to autonomously accomplish different tasks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mihir Garimella is participating in the 2015 Hackaday Prize with his Firefly, an ARM Cortex processor powered low-cost flying robot\u00a0with autonomous navigation. Firefly changes this. Firefly is a low-cost (~$200), open-source flying robot platform for first responders. It includes a base layer of generic algorithms for completely autonomous flight\u2014algorithms for avoiding obstacles and efficiently searching for targets\u2014that are based on how organisms in nature solve the problems of perception and navigation. Users can plug in application-specific modules containing sensors (e.g., thermal cameras for finding people or gas sensors for finding fires or hazardous chemicals) that work with this algorithmic layer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1024],"tags":[1289,1288],"class_list":["post-10727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arm-projects","tag-arm-cortex-m0","tag-flying-robot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10730,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727\/revisions\/10730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}