On Mar 5, 11:39*am, GARY BOGGS wrote:
In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors,
small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc
teams -- for construction, surveying disasters and far more.

If these things can keep from running into each other, why is it so
hard to design and implement a system to keep sailplanes apart?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfR6t...nnotation_id=a...

Boggs

It's all preprogrammed moves, all worked out on a computer before the
flight profile is uploaded to each unit. They are all synced to the
same clock.

T