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drones developed for this project has a precisely defined flight path. to camera movements to were programmed in advance . the drones are designed to work fully autonomous lead. armies advantage is that you can fly with the drones. and the drones exactly what you want for example we have a big sporting event in case we have more than one drawing we have more to draw on it is really difficult to repeat the choreography precisely so it is necessary to have. so we can rebuild the scenario. look back a few weeks when project partners from industry research in the media met at a country estate in northern germany. scientists and specialists from 8 european countries collaborated on the project now for the 1st time the system is to be

tested in simulated media productions. the. team members tinker and reprogram up to the last 2nd. outside drone is prepared for a practice flight even if it's supposed to fly autonomously a safety pilot is on hand to take over the controls if it becomes necessary. this new area 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. to trial for the use the travel to hold over to keep the outside search and also work. in fakes from like wind and. you have to compensate the position to keep and room. the position. of

perfect. so let's wait again. inside morici a mountain 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 they direct out and the media stuff i have to. think about all the backing of. the shows and troubles dot com in place no one where you have to perform a production with the drones but you can concentrate on the editorial staff. all 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 make 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.

surprise. surprise because. concerns about stability. but sadly the image results are disappointing the footage shot by the 2 drones was too blurry to be of any use the camera's autofocus functions didn't work as well as they had in lab tests. the 1st time. so now we are face. before. place when we are doing the real thing. the main challenge is that we have. tried 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 rowers have taken 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 relief. good work so everything from now on is eyes. on the top which should mean that we slow

down and do less but it's great was a success over the. next day the multi drone team welcomes a group of park or runners for test scenario number 3. the drones are in the air ready to record but then the rovers 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 $20000.00 plus drones. into 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. on expect a thing for control it feels really bad and of course the parents about you know things happens. to team immediately start to miss to getting the cause of the crash the most urgent question here is might any of the other drones experience the same problem if so then all flights will have to be suspended indefinitely. so i think the recent. report that that we have in the draw if you come 1st remote control on the process for food safety if the controller frames for us we know and we think we need to present these but. we don't know. how. i can see with us. right now.

so far range of drone models have been used. the crash drone was the only one equipped with this emergency stop function. the team concludes that the other is 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 intelligence is programmed 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 . and these algorithms. use the information from all 'd of the flying drones. to gather in order

to detect some of the crowd. i mean for serve. in the. sea of the crowd but there's been all these. or. not but a lot of it seems. first of all the. final preparations are underway for the annual around a rowing regatta it'll be the 1st test of the multi drone system at a sporting event after 2 weeks of trials the team is ready for the real deal. then they're off. to. have taken up position on the 15 kilometers route to be ready for their 1st

real deployment. everybody in position. so they won't pose a hazard to them or the spectators everything is going according to plan. a loft one of them functioning completely autonomous sleep even though it's windy and humid it starts raining and the mission has to be aborted. thank you very much. it's. already. the drones are coming to the end of their mission. charles cold

calling because. even the return flight and the safe landing are handled autonomously mission accomplished. made was a very very challenging project and we had a number of serious setbacks actually from the very beginning i think without it really hard work especially over the last 34 months and. have ferry 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 sark deficient in delhi on the sea no matter what i feel i'm feeling good enough on one thing that the smarter lace they can depart for good feeling of the future.

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