Innovators Under 35 I5.
Lorenz Meier, 32
Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology
An open-source autopilot for drones.
Lorenz
Meier was curious about technologies that could allow robots to move around on
their own, but in 2008, when he started looking, he was unimpressed—most
systems had not yet even adopted the affordable motion sensors found in
smartphones.
So Meier, now a
postdoc at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, built his own
system instead: PX4, an open-source autopilot for autonomous drone control.
Importantly, Meier’s system aims to use cheap cameras and computer logic to let
drones fly themselves around obstacles, determine their optimal paths, and
control their overall flight with little or no user input. It has already been
adopted by companies including Intel, Qualcomm, Sony, and GoPro.
—Russ Juskalian
—Russ Juskalian
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
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