ARTIS (aviation)

Autonomous Rotorcraft Testbed for Intelligent Systems (ARTIS) 2006

ARTIS stands for " A utonomous R otorcraft T estbed for I ntelligent S (dtsch. Ystems" Autonomous rotary-wing test vehicle intelligent systems ).

The German Aerospace Center DLR , Institute for Flight System Technology , operates an experimental platform based on a remote-controlled model helicopter (Genesis by Ludwig Benda). This helicopter is equipped with, among other things, an on-board computer, inertial sensors and GPS to research processes and algorithms for autonomous hovering and cross-country flight.

Of particular interest is the "on-board intelligence" which is supposed to enable the system to avoid obstacles independently based on camera images.

See also

• Artificial intelligence
• DLR project page on ARTIS
• Overview lecture on ARTIS (German Workshop Robotics 2009)
• ARTIS at the ILA 2008, Berlin
• Obstacle detection and modeling in real time on board ARTIS
• ARTIS recognizes and passes through an archway