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Article #1411Re: Intelligent Blimps?
From: Wan-Yik Lee
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:38
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:38
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In article <1992Nov18.060242.24569@netcom.com> nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes: >crs@sybase.com (Craig Saunders) writes: > >>... > > There are commercial model blimps set up for R/C control. I've >seen them, but don't have a manufacturer. Payload is low, but sufficient >for R/C control and battery-powered propulsion. > > ... >in Brand's "The Media Lab". But there's a group in (I think) Austin >TX which had some model blimps with steerable ultrasonic sonars >operating autonmously for art performances. I've seen a video of this, >and Joegh Bullock of Climate Theatre in SF would know who they are. > > John Nagle I believe the Austin group that John Nagle was referring to is the Austin Robots Group. The group has a blimp robot with an onboard computer with a ring of 16 sonar range finders. It is steered with fans. ------------- Wan-Yik Lee Dept. of Computer Sciences The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712 (512) 471-9563 wylee@cs.utexas.edu -- Organization: University of Texas at Austin
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news From: wylee@cs.utexas.edu (Wan-Yik Lee) Newsgroups: comp.robotics Subject: Re: Intelligent Blimps? Date: 18 Nov 1992 18:38:48 -0600 Organization: University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences Lines: 33 Message-ID: <lglogoINNt69@trurl.cs.utexas.edu> References: <1d8r02INNlrh@clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk> <25803@sybase.sybase.com> <1992Nov18.060242.24569@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trurl.cs.utexas.edu