granting opportunity global news that matters d. w. made. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language but the 1st word emerged from the group. rico is in germany to learn german and why not with him simple online on your mobile and free themselves d w e learning course you can speak german maybe you see. such. a 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. based on. each of the 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 lee. far means advantage if you can fly with the drones. and the drones do exactly what for example we have a big sporting event and in case we have more than one drone they have more to draw on it is really difficult to repeat the choreography precisely so it is necessary. 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 some 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 a 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 playing the drones with no technical support it's not the same as working with camera drones generally used in media productions. it's not keeping. track clothing is the trouble to haul very to keep the outskirts and also work against him thanks from like wind and. you have to compensate the position to keep and remain the position. of the

target. so let's wait again. inside more each year mountain warlow readies the 1st test scenario with cyclists as the focus. the system 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 a director and the media staff have to. think about all the. issues and troubles that come 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 taking 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 i mean there were so many concerns about the stability of the flights in there. 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. right now is the 1st time that we've got that all together to. meet the production so now we are for a scene where fry prime the new problems that we couldn't test before or places this is what happened when we are doing the right thing we are seeing all together. the main challenges that we have and we will try to solve the following days. 2 days later at a nearby lake and all go. 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 autonomous leave. it to delivers much better images than it did 2 days before all the effort paid off. it's a huge relief. good work to meet so everything from now on is icing on the top which should 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 who are 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 $20000.00 plus drones. it really hurt because. when you spend so much time working over. to. work on it just to have it in time so. things could work out it suddenly. expected thing

for control it feels really bad and of course it hurts about you know things happens. immediately started mr getting the cause 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 we have in the draw to come for some 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. 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 the thinking 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 to use artificial intelligence is 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 of the flying drones. to gather in order to detect some of the crowd. that means. i mean for fear of.

see the crowd that is. or. not get along with. one another. 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. and they're off. to. have taken up 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. a loft one of them functioning completely autonomous sleep even though it's windy and humid. and the mission has to be aborted. thank you very much. which i. feel. was. the drones are coming to the end of their mission.

be careful. 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 it really hard work especially over the last 34 months and. and ferry very good spirit in the in the concerts we wouldn't have achieved what we did achieve this is a nice combination low for robotics are deficient in delhi and cinematography i'm feeling in general and i think that the smarter lace they can depart for good feeling of the future.

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