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. in. each of the drones developed for this project has a precisely defined flight path. to camera movements to work program didn't advance . the drones are designed to work fully autonomous lee. vantage you can fly drones. and the drones do exactly what for example we have a big sporting event and in case we have more than one drone we have more to draw

on it is really difficult to read 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 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 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. the scenario has to be rehearsed the pilots practiced flying the drone. 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 out for the u.s. the travel to haul very to keep the outfits and also work against him thanks from like we are and. you have to compensate the position to keep and remain in the position. of perfect. so let's do it again. inside merits your 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 directors 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 drawings but you can concentrate on the editorial staff. the technical details are taken care of by mission control this is tim 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 nazi drones practicality for media production to drones try. a group of cyclists with video cameras fall

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 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.

is the 1st time but we. so now we are facing. problems that we couldn't before. the places. we are doing the real thing. the main challenges that we have. trying to solve the. case. 2 days later at a nearby lake and old boathouse serves as command central final preparations are made for the 2nd attempt to focus 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 an entirely different.

the other drone flies autonomously. it too delivers much better images than it did 2 days before all the effort paid off. it's a huge really. good work to be so everything from now on is icing 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 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. into really hurt because. well when you spend so much time working on these. 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 it hurts about you know things happens. the team immediately starts to misty getting 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 if you come 1st so remote controlled on the. food safety if the controller fails for us we know and we think we need to present this but. we don't know exactly how. about that. so far a range of drone models have been used in the crash drone was the only one equipped with this emergency stop function. the team concludes the thinking 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 jim'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 . these algorithms. use the information from all of the flying drones. to gather in order to detect some of the crowd. that means that the revenue for fair. see the cross. or. not that a lot of the. final preparations are underway for the annual around funds

a rowing regatta it will 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. starts. and they're off. to. have taken up position on the 15 kilometers route to be ready for their 1st real deployment. everybody. 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 fully even though it's windy and humid. starts raining and the mission has to be aborted.

thank you very much. which is. already. returning to seville the drones are coming to the end of their mission. charles. 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 was really hard work especially over the last 34 months and it's. a very very good spirit in the in the concerts we wouldn't have achieved what we did achieve this is

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