Aurora Right Sciences plans in 18 months to fly a micro-sized unmanned air vehicle that is guided by visual and sonar sensors inspired by flies and bats. The challenge involves cramming several tiny cameras, two sonar antennas and orvboard processing into a prototype package weighing no more than 300g (10,6oz) and consuming less than 5W. Aurora's project team, aided by algorithms developed by the University of Maryland, must also design a guidance system that would allow a mi-cro-UAV to autonomously navigate a dense urban canyon, Jim Paduano, Aurora's lead researcher, acknowledges that the difficulty dramatically increases the closerthe UAV flies to ground level. Above about 16ft (5m), the only things to detect and dodge are mostly large buildings. Below about 13-16ft, the UAV must fly amid power lines, traffic poles, cables and other city obstacles. The integrated guidance system is called Panoptis.
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机译：Aurora Right Sciences计划在18个月内驾驶一种微型无人飞行器，该飞行器由受蝇和蝙蝠启发的视觉和声纳传感器引导。挑战包括将几台微型摄像机，两个声纳天线和Orvboard处理设备塞入一个重量不超过300克（10.6盎司）且功耗不到5瓦的原型包装中。 Aurora的首席研究员Jim Paduano承认，Aurora的项目团队在马里兰大学开发的算法的帮助下，还必须设计一种引导系统，以使微型无人机能够自动在密集的城市峡谷中航行。无人机越接近地面。在约16英尺（5m）以上时，唯一要检测和躲避的东西是大型建筑物。在13-16英尺以下时，无人机必须在电力线，交通杆，电缆和其他城市障碍物中飞行。集成的制导系统称为Panoptis。
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