“EECS grad student Patrick Bouffard, working with Professor Claire Tomlin from the Hybrid Systems Lab, has used Microsoft’s Kinect controller to create a quadrocopter which can maneuver around obstacles autonomously. The developers attached the Kinect hardware to the device which delivers a point cloud to the on-board computer and allows the vehicle to map its surroundings and move about intelligently. A video documenting the project and posted on YouTube is on track for going viral.” Taken from…

http://eng-tips.nethawk.net/beta/blog/berkeley-engineering-grad-student-uses-kinect-to-create-flying-ai-robot

Quadcopter resources:

http://www.mikrokopter.us/