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Flying Quadrocopters Play Pong
The vehicles/ball are tracked by an overhead motion capture system and controlled by a pair of computers.
Mark Müller, Sergei Lupashin and Raffaello D'Andrea at the ETH Flying Machine Arena.
Bio: The Flying Machine Arena (FMA) is a portable space devoted to autonomous
flight. Measuring up to 10 x 10 x 10 meters, it consists of a
high-precision motion capture system, a wireless communication network,
and custom software executing sophisticated algorithms for estimation
and control.