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Construction elements

Speech control

Speech control: Fuzzy Control of an Unmanned Helicopter toward Real Applications
Natural Language Processing from Conversant Systems, Inc.
Developing Natural Language Interfaces by Russell Suereth
Terry Winograd
Perzanowski's Integrating Natural Language paper (Biomimetic Robotics: Call For Papers)
ThoughtTreasure home page
Fuzzy helicopter control
Current Research, Dennis Perzanowski, Intelligent M4 Systems, NCARAI, NRL

Propulsion: ducted fans, motors

Tiltrotor Definition
Caltech Ducted Fan Home Page
Why electric ducted fan
The Electric R/C Power System (big motors)
Electric Ducted Fans with Robert Wagoner - March 1998
Wayne's Indoor World September 1997
Motors for Slow-Flyers
Propulsion sets
Controller
Astro Flight Inc.
What's New
JETFAN Technology
MLB Company: heli
Ion Propulsion for MEMS Flight Vehicles
Welcome to Electrifying Times!
NanoJet Engines
Welcome to the AMT Advanced Micro Turbines home page
The Land Shark: Homemade Turbine Hyperlinks
DC-Micromotoren Serie mit Neodym Magneten
schulze-elektronik.com Hauptseite
ducted fan KRESS
KRESS JETS,INC.
Electric Ducted Fans February 1998 by Robert Wagoner
Ducted Fan Design
The (E)lectric (D)ucted (F)an resource.
Ducted Fan data.
EDF: WEB site links.
Free Flight EDF
Unbeaten Path Imports Home Page
Micro-Rockets
System Design and Integration
Combustion
Welcome to the Electric Jet Factory

Batteries

Wireless Power Transmission

Demonstration of Wireless Power Transmission
Third WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION Conference
Tesla Wireless and the Tunguska Explosion
Early History of WPT

Fuel Cell

Heise News - Ticker: Mini-Brennstoffzelle für Notebooks
Notebook operates for ten hours on a fuel cell
Merlin Group Inc. Energy related projects page
Technology News from Wired News
Wasserstoff als Stromlieferant für Notebooks
US Army Communications Electronics Command (CECOM)
Energy Related Devices
Manhatten Scientifics Inc.: FAQ on ERD
Manhatten Scientifics Inc.: pollutionfree power
SOLAR-HYDROGEN EXPERIMENTERS KIT
Scientific American: Technology and Business: Taking on the Energizer Bunny: April 1998. Researchers develop fuel cells for portable electronics
Technology News from Wired News
WA-TEC Solar Hydrogen Teaching Models / WA-TEC Lehrmodelle Solarer Wasserstoff, Index

Battery Technology(11-Feb-1997)
AA110 Sat Design 3
Rechargeable Lithium Batteries
Lithium Ion Battery Technology Shows Promise
Ultra-Thin Batteries
ECR - In the Pipeline
TADIRAN BATTERIES LTD.
In-Charge
Rechargeable Systems
ION Associates IRC What's Hot
BATTERY CARE GUIDE
The Tip Sheet
A.C.'s Elektronik-Infos
Products
Battery Engineering What's New
Thermoelectric Based Micro-Air-Vehicle (MAV)
Welcome to Automated Media Systems
Team West: Technology (good summary of future battery technologies)
News

Sensors

Inertial proprioceptive devices
DataTec: Gyrosensor, Acceleration Sensor and D-GPS
What Robotics related products are there?
What Robotics related products are there?
Position Trackers: Acoustic: SEHR GUT!
Pegasus Technologies Ltd. - Technology
Pegasus Technologies Ltd. - Products
Product News--Special Issue on Data Acquisition 1997
Ultrasonics and Robotics
VR Writeup (E90)
Inertial Sensors, Accelerometers and Inclinometers
A2 Mechanical Specifications
Mobile Robotic Position Telemetry
Welcome to Polhemus!
Polhemus 3D Tracking Conference
gyroscopes
"Where am I?" -- Systems and Methods for Mobile Robot Positioning
VFF and VFH -- Fast Obstacle Avoidance for Mobile Robots
Smallest solid state gyro
easyFly
Arcamax Control Systems Inc.
Origin Instruments
On The Net - Commercial Resources - Trackers
InterSense Products
InterSense Products
POLARIS Optical Tracking Ssytem
GPS Formation Flying Spacecraft
Indoor GPS for Controlling Prototype Space Vehicles; Kurt Zimmerman's Talk
Autonomous Rendezvous Using the Global Position System (GPS) for Sensing
Götting KG: Navigations- und Ortungssysteme mit GPS
Super Dimension
Point Grey Research, Inc.
A SURVEY OF 3-D INPUT DEVICES
GPS Technology
Positioning Orientation and Tracking systems
JR3, Inc.
The Ultra Low Power Wireless Sensor Project Home Page
Ultrasonic Location System
UMBmark -- A Method for Measuring, Comparing, and Correcting Dead-reckoning Errors in Mobile Robots
NRaD LOW-COST MINIATURE INTERFACE AND CONTROL SYSTEMS (AMGSSS)
V-SCOPE VS-100
Kalman Filter
SypTech Corporation - Products & Services
(very good!!) SypTech Corporation - Application Notes
Team West: Technology
Autonomous Rendezvous Using the Global Position System (GPS) for Sensing
GPS Pseudolite Signal Design
Projekte und Missionen Nr. 8/98
Human Movement Tracking Technology
Matt Reynolds- RF Infrastructure for TTT
PinPoint Home Page
Non-Line-of-Sight (NLS) Construction Metrology

Controllers

Neuro - Fuzzy Controllers
68hc11
What is the XXX Microcontroller?
Robot Controllers
Design of Flight Mode Management on Model Helicopters
primer and general FAQ about microcontrollers
sensor electronics of Georgia Tech Aerial Robotics Team: Servo Switch, Servo PWM to TTL Output, Polaroid Ultrasonic Driver
Kalman Filter
An Introduction to the Kalman Filter

Actuators/Servos

Light Servo NG
Receiver
Mondo-tronics' Robot Store --- Robots Kits, Muscle Wires, SMA's, Electronics, Parts, and More!!! ---
GKDesign CURI-4
sensor electronics of Georgia Tech Aerial Robotics Team: Servo Switch, Servo PWM to TTL Output
GeneSys-1

Camera/Transmitter/Aerial Photography

The pan & tilt Photo and Video RC system have been built specially for aerial photo and video by helicopter remote control
Blimp Video Production with a Sony DCR-VX1000 Digital Camcorder.
EQUIPMENT OF FLOATOGRAPH AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY SYSTEMS
TRIPOD
R/C Aerial Photography
HELICOPER - PHOTO - VIDEO - AERIAL - RC
Wireless AV camera and transmission
MIT Media Lab Everest Endeavor
Everest E-3
Micro Video Transmitter
Supercircuits Catalog, Page 1
The Spymaster Catalog Monitoring And Camera Systems
SPYVIDEO
Detailed Photos-Micro Video Transmitter Kit
MV-WORLD The World's Smallest Video Transmitter System
R/C Aerial Photography
RC Helicopters-The Collective RPV Page
Project Cyclops
RCAPG page
Welcome to P.C. Electronics
AEROCAM airborne video system
DESIGNED TO FLY
Remote Control Aerial Photography
Video cameras, Transmitters, and Surveillance Equipment
Supercircuits Inc.
Supercircuits Catalog, Page 1
Supercircuits Catalog, Page 2
Supercircuits Catalog, Page 9
Supercircuits Catalog, Page 7
Supercircuits Catalog, Page 6
Supercircuits Catalog, Page 9
Micro Video Products ( Micro Video (tm))
Micro Video (TM) Lipstick Tube Weatherproof Miniature Video Camera Video Camera w/ Weatherproof Housing
Miniature Micro Video Wireless Transmitter
Dome Surveillance Video Camera
Miniature Micro Video Wireless Transmitter
SPYMASTER PRESENTS: The World's Smallest Video Transmitter System
Hi Cam Press Release
project flycam
Miniature Video Camera with Audio - Video Surveillance
MLB Company: The MLB Bat
MLB Co. Helicam
CamCopter Systems
GKDesign CURI-4
Aerial Photography from R/C aircraft
Welcome To HOVERCAM
Hovercam's Air Ship.
NORTH COUNTRY RADIO
UHF REJECT FILTER FOR R/C RECEIVERS
Polaris Industries
Polaris Industries Products
CMOS Cameras
The Wireless Revolution: report on wireless video and its use in production
Shotmaker home
Advanced Camera Systems, Inc.
History of Aerial Cinematography
Welcome to SpaceCam
GYRON Systems International
aerial cinematography
KAP Welcome
SmartCams: Automatic TV Cameras
Cablecam Systems, Ltd. (good slogan, good example for the complicated procedure! .mov's)
third
ADVANCED AERIALS
VISION - the world's leading producer of CMOS imaging solutions
VV6407 - High Performance, Colour, CIF Digital CMOS Image Sensor
New Products August 1997: CMOS SENSORS
ELMO

R/C

The Complete R/C Websites Index, with over 1600 indexed radio control links worldwide!
Hobby Lobby Home Page
Welcome to Tower Hobbies!
The R/C Web Directory
Usenet R/C Newsgroups
HobbyTown USA
HOPE
HOPE-Modellbau AG "HomePage"
Homepage des Schweizerischen Modellflugverbandes SMV und "modellflugsport"
LCI Dynamite Testbed
Electric R/c Resources
Ultimate Hobbies-RC Model Newsgroups

R/C Helicopters

Helicopter-Oriented Web Sites
helibuf's world
Helicopter World Online Catalog
Copter Concepts--The World's First Rubber Band Helicopters
Model Helicopter Sites
Natescape: huge list of heli links
R/C Flying: Part 2 of 2/rec.models.rc FAQ
Design of Flight Mode Management on Model Helicopters
Helicopter Aviation
Design of Flight Mode Management on Model Helicopters
Rotary Flight AG, das einzige Modellhelikopter - Spezialgeschäft in der Schweiz
Miniature Aircraft USA Home Page
Model Helicopters - W3MH Home page - LEP - Lance Electronic Publishing

Electric R/C Helicopters

Pixel Homepage
WES technik: micro heli Pixel 1 to 3
The Future is Electric
History of J. E. Heli.
Electric Helicopter Links
Keyence
INTERTRONICS
WIRED 5.07: F E T I S H - Edited by Tim Barkow
Ikarus Modellflugsport
Schule
Electric Links
Wayne's Indoor World February 1998
Electric Powered Radio Control Model Helicopters Home page!!!
Electric R/c Resources
Home Page
The Movies

Marco Cantoni
third

Rick's R/C HELI - by C. David Cole

Airbased Robots and UAV

rotary wing (helicopters)

autonomous

Hoverbot
Hoverbot 2
Hoverbot movie
HUMMINGBIRD Project - Stanford University
DV8: Autonomous Aerial Robot
UTA Autonomous Aerial Vehicle Project
Dirigible Autonomous Aerial Vehicle
Guided Systems Technologies, Inc.
Georgia Tech Aerial Robotics
Stanford-NASA-MLB Autonomous Helicopter
International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence
Team UCSD Aerial Robotics Competition Homepage
Autonomous Helicopter Project
CNN - Inventor's helicopter becomes robotic eye-in-the-sky - July 2, 1996
UCF AUVS Homepage
Autonomously Flying Helicopter
AFV
Design of Flight Mode Management on Model Helicopters
SADA_98
Discover Magazine: Current Issue
Items, Programs, and Ideas

semiautonomous, and nonautonomous (RPVs)

UAV SEHR GUT
Moller Aerobot
Aerobot
Cypher (WFF)
Cypher
Cypher
Seabat
Naval Technology - Seamos - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Multipurpose Security and Surveillance Mission Platform (Cypher movies)
AROD Airborne Remotely Operated Device
MSSMP: No Place to Hide
NRaD Air Mobile Ground Security and Surveillance System (AMGSSS)
AMGSSS: Virtual Systems
Guided Systems Technologies, Inc.
Shirakawa Radio Control Club_Robot
Remote Inspection of Overhead Power Lines
Innovation (Mar/Apr 97) - Robotic Helicopter
ROBOTIC HELICOPTER MAY OFFER NEW OPTION FOR PUBLIC SAFETY

fixed wing (airplanes)

Micro Unmanned Air Vehicle (MUAV)
RMIT UAV Group
The UAV-I Design Page
WFF UAV Home Page

MLB Company

Micro Air Vehicles MAV

What are Micro Aerial Vehicles?
Welcome To High Technology Careers
http://spbtrc.gtri.gatech.edu/MicroVehicle
Micro Air Vehicles
Flying into the Future -- Micro Air Vehicles at Georgia Tech
Micro Air Vehicles:Learning from the Birds and Bees
Micro Unmanned Air Vehicle (MUAV)
Micro Air Vehicles - Toward a New Dimension in Flight (military, but very good!)
Micro Air Vehicle (MAV)
TR: October '97: Reporter (like the article)
Thomas J. Mueller
MLB Company
DefenseLINK News: DARPA SELECTS MICRO AIR VEHICLE CONTRACTOR
ADVANCED UNMANNED VEHICLE SYSTEMS
ARMY Submission of Proposals
Tech Review October '97: Reporter: links
PM: TECH UPDATE: Into The Tiny Blue Yonder: AUGUST 97
Discovery Online — Micro Air Vehicles
April 1998 Feature: The Buzz on Robotic Bugs
Micro UAVs
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles as Low-Cost Science Platforms; Ray Morgan Testimony
Technical Aspects of Microscale Flight Systems
Micro Aircraft Project, AMSL
MICRO-AERIAL VEHICLE
MLB Company: The Wing Body 6"
New Scientist Planet Science: Palmtop planes
Reciprocating Chemical Muscle (RCM) for Micro Air Vehicle ÒEntomopterÓ Flight
Kameya Takashi's page
Discovery Online — Micro Air Vehicles
About Robert C. Michelson's Micro Air Vehicle "Entomopter" Project
MLB Company: MAV paper ((good))

Blimps

Hiroshi HP: HONEY
The interactive balloon (IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 35, Nos. 3&4, 1996)
WFF UAV : Characteristics Database
ORCA MicroAirships
Airship Resources - Unmanned Airship Links
Computer Blimp: A Technical History
PRoP
"FLOATERS" testbed
Blimps, LTA's, Balloons
Mobile Airships Small Indoor R/C Blimps
The Remote Controled Flying UFO Toy [A MUST SEE!]!
Hovercam's Air Ship.

Landbased Robots

Real-time Reinforcement Learning in an Autonomous Robot
Khepera Simulator Homepage
The Ants
Khepera, Micro Robot, FAQ

MEMS

DARPA ETO MEMS Overview Presentation
Joerg Albrecht
What Is...MEMS (a definition)
MEMS for Micro Air Vehicles
6.971 General Course Information
Georgia Tech MEMS Home Page
The MEMS Clearinghouse Homepage
MCNC MEMS Home Page
MEMS WWW Sites With Tutorials

Micro Modeling/ Indoor Flying

Indoor-Flying: SEHR GUT!
WES-Technik
WES-Technik: product overview
Institute for Microtechnology Mainz
World's Smallest Helicopter Has First Flight
Re: World's smallest electric helicopter
World's smallest electric helicopter
The Ants
Wayne's Indoor World May 1997
Microflight

Space

Autonomous Extravehicular Camera - Sprint (AERCam Sprint)
Free Floating Robots - Home Page
NASA Telerobotics Program Plan - Chapter 2
AERCam Sprint Flight Project Homepage

Labs

Georgia Tech Aerial Robotics
IMRT - HOME
AILab, University of Zurich
Internet Robotics Resources
Team UCSD Aerial Robotics Competition Homepage
AFV
Home -- Slide 1
Aerial Robotics Team (ART) at Oakland University
Autonomous Air Vehicle
The miniature mobile robots at LAMI
ICEweb 4/98
MIT/Draper Autonomous Helicopter Project
The MIT / Draper Laboratory Autonomous Helicopter
1998 MIT Aerial Robotics Team
Active Materials and Structures Laboratory
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Competitions

Robot Competition FAQ
Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems (AUVS) International Robotics Competitions
BEAM Aerobot
Robot 98
ISSMO - International Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
Micro Air Vehicle: The Competition
ISSMO Micro AV Competition II
ISSMO - International Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
Publications Featuring the 1997 Competition
Micro Airplane Competition
Robotics Competition Corner
Conferences and Competitions
1998 MIT Aerial Robotics Team
Micro-AV Competition
Micro Air Vehicle Competition

Conferences

http://spbtrc.gtri.gatech.edu/MicroVehicle
RPV/UAV Systems Programme
Conferences and Competitions
UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID

Adaption, Learning

AFV: behaviour-based control (simulation mpg)
Real-time Reinforcement Learning in an Autonomous Robot
Adaptive Intelligent Systems: A Quick Summary
Learning fuzzy-neural behavior-based control
AFV References
Pitronics - about robots
GKDesign CURI-4
BWL-Schnupperkurs: Bedürfnishierarchie nach MASLOW
JPEG image 774x511 pixels

Artilect

CNN - Swiss scientists warn of robot Armageddon - Feb. 18, 1998
Artilect: Moral Dilemmas Concerning the Ultra Intelligent Machine
What Is...an artilect (a definition)
ShiftOnlineInterview
Towards the Ethical Robot
Bruce M. McLaren - Home page

Robotics FAQ Table of Contents
Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems (AUVS) International Robotics Competitions
ASRT - Autonomous Scout Rotorcraft Testbed
Autogyros
IfA 3 und 4
IS Robotics
Mondo-tronics' Robot Store --- Robots Kits, Muscle Wires, SMA's, Electronics, Parts, and More!!! ---
Internet Robotics Resources
Robotics at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego
Flapping Wings: Engine-Powered
Copter Concepts--The World's First Rubber Band Helicopters
Richard Shelton's Bookmarks
3DOF Helicopter
Ball Robot
ChrisHillmansAnimatronicsLinks
((good)) goals of an Autonomous Helicopter Project
The Tiltrotor Story
Kulikov General Aviation & Business VTOL Aircraft Designs
Stanford Aerospace Robotics Laboratory
ARL TRIWG Quarterly Report - Q3 FY 1997
Evolutionary robotics (LAMI, Khepera)
Micro robots: SHELLEYS' EYE
UNMANNED VEHICLES - The Shephard Press - Home page
Active Materials and Structures Laboratory
Lemelson Center
Appendix C: Tokyo Institute of Technology
Acroname Robotics Links
Department of Zoology homepage

Artificial Life

Bill Buxton Home Page
Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at COGS
SSIE504 - Introduction to Artificial Life
Summary of Kaufmann's NK landscapes and Genetic Algorithms
FourthLawstuff - Title
SSIE580B - Evolutionary Systems and Artificial Life: Lecture Notes
ARTIFICIAL LIFE
Life in Java
The Ants
comp.ai.alife FAQ: Artificial Life Resources
The HONDA HUMANOID ROBOT




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Send me some comments! Stefan Marti Last updated Nov 2 1998.