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social norms and inform them i hold the basic rights my name is the about of the hook and i wore you to. shift special this time developing and testing autonomous camera drones. the e.u. financed multi drone project is ready for takeoff near the spanish city of seville will these 3 drones accomplish their mission completely are needed. will this 3 year project have a successful outcome. on. each of the drones developed for this project has a precisely defined flight path. the camera movements to were programmed in advance

. the drones are designed to work fully autonomous lee. advantage is that you can fly the drones precisely and the drones do exactly what you want for example we have a big sporting event in case we have more than one drone we have more to draw on it is really difficult to repeat the choreography precisely so it is necessary. so we can repeat the scenario. look back a few weeks when project partners from industry research in the media met at a country estate in northern germany. and scientists in specialists from 8 european countries collaborated on the project now for the 1st time the system is to be tested in simulated media productions. team members tinker and reprogram up to the last 2nd.

outside drone is prepared for a practice light even if it's supposed to fly autonomously a safety pilot is on hand to take over the controls if it becomes necessary. this is an area that has to be rehearsed the pilots practiced flying the drones with no technical support it's not the same as working with camera drones generally used on media productions. it's not keeping. it so you have to try to try. to keep the outskirts and also work against him thanks from like we are and. you have to compensate the position to keep and remain the position. of the earth. so let's wait again.

inside monton wallow readies the 1st test scenario with cyclists as the focus this is tim central component is the dashboard a planning module for camera operators and directors using an input screen they control the flight paths and camera movements of individual drones so there i thought and the media stuff have to. think about all the. issues and troubles and dot com in place no one where you have to perform a production with the drones but you can concentrate on the editorial staff. the technical details are taken care of by mission control this system checks all components for plausibility and calculates the ideal flight path for the drones it also makes sure none of the drones gets another drone in its picture.

one of the program's features after the planning and control is the ability to simulate the mission on the monitor. it's a short step from simulation to reality to test the multi drones practicality for media production to drones track a group of cyclists with video cameras all completely autonomous like. the cameras follow the bike riders with the aid of g.p.s. tracking. the command headquarters monitors the entire mission each safety pilot keeps their assigned drone in sight at all times but there's no need to intervene. super. surprised because i mean there were so many. about the stability of the

flight. but sadly the image results are disappointing the footage shot by the 2 drones was too blurry to be of any use the cameras auto focus functions didn't work as well as they had in lab tests. the 1st time that we've had to do. so now we are facing. we. before. play since this is what happened when we were doing the real thing. and the main challenges that we have we were trying to solve the. case. 2 days later at a nearby lake and old boat house serves as command central final preparations are made for the 2nd attempt will the autofocus work this time.

the better part of a day was spent working on the autofocus issue for this test taking over for the bikers. this time the drone is controlled manually and the resulting footage is of an entirely different quality. the other drone flies autonomously. to deliver so much better images than it did 2 days before all the effort paid off. it's a huge really. good work so maybe it's everything from now on is icing on the top which we slow down and do less but it's great was a success i didn't think. the next day the

multi drone team welcomes a group of park or runners protest scenario number 3. the drones are in the air ready to record but then the rotors on one drone suddenly stop working. the team and here's district safety precautions that may well have saved people from getting hurt. unfortunately that can't be said of one of the 20000 year old plus drones. it really hurt because. well when you spend so much time working all these. time just to. work on it just to have it in time so things could work and it suddenly crushes for an unexpected thing for control it feels really bad and of course the parents about

you know things happens. to team immediately start to miss to get in because of the crash the most urgent question here is might any of the other drones experienced the same problem if so then all flights will have to be suspended indefinitely. so i think the research. that that we have in the draw to come 1st so remote control on the process for food safety if the controller for far as we know and we think we need to present this but. we don't know exactly how. i can see it see it with us. right now. about that. so far a range of drone models have been used. to cry. drone was the only one equipped

with this emergency stop function. the team concludes the thinking keep the others flying and start getting a substitute ready for takeoff. safety is the top priority so the system includes its own l.t.e. wireless network and other ironclad rule is that the drones must never fly over large crowds this is tim's artificial intelligences program to spot crowds on its own marked in this image in red and white. machine learning has trained the algorithm to recognize groups of people through its camera even when not recording . these algorithms. use the information from all 'd of the flying drones. in order to detect some of the crowd. that means that the revenue for.

final preparations are underway for the annual. it'll be the 1st test of the system at a sporting event after 2 weeks of trials the team is ready for the real deal. and they're off. to. have taken a position on the 15 kilometers route to be ready for their 1st real deployment. everybody in.

so they won't pose a hazard to them or the spectators everything is going according to plan. loft one of them functioning completely autonomous li even though it's windy and humid. and the mission has to be aborted. thank you very much. for. coming to the end of their mission. charles foti cold calling because. even the return flight and the safe landing are handled

autonomously mission accomplished. it was a very very challenging project and we had a number of serious setbacks actually from the very beginning i think without the really hard work especially over the last 34 months patents and fairy very good spirits in the in the concerts here we wouldn't have achieved what we did achieve this is a nice combination low for robotics are deficient 1000000000 on cinematography i'm feeling in general and i think that the smarter lace they can depart for good feeling of the future. for.

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