Fully Loaded Quadcopter Achieves 20 m, s Flight

DARPA s Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) program recently demonstrated that a commercial quadcopter platform could achieve 20meterspersecond flight while carrying a full load of sensors and cameras. The FLA program aims to develop and test algorithms that could reduce the amount of processing power, communications, and human intervention needed for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to accomplish lowlevel tasks, such as navigation around obstacles in a cluttered environment. If successful, FLA would reduce