must strengthen its voice in the world therefore it will also stand up for this in the coming year during the german e.u. council presidency for example by holding a summit of all member states with china and a meeting with the african states. and so chancellor merkel concludes the year proper magically with concrete plans for the future employed there is still much work left for her to do. and you can watch the address in full later today on up next shifts to our tech shares finale but so much for watching. only 15 years of religions for peace citizens from many different faiths are working together toward a common goal the peaceful resolution of religious conflicts in the lead now all

female members of religions for peace from the middle east are demanding a larger. all common ground is empowering women giving them the rule. making them agents of change in the square. and the female peacemakers stores january 5th. 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. 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 league. farm advantage 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 drone we 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. 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. this new aerial 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. so you have to trawl through all the years the trouble to hold her to keep the outskirts and also work against him thanks from like when and. you have to compensate the position to keep and read. main the position.

of perfect. so let's wait again. inside more each month and wallow 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 they direct orders and the media staff have to. think about all the. issues and problems that come in place no one where you have to perform a product from where 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 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. 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 but. so now we are facing. we. before. place this is what we are doing we are feeling. the main challenges 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 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 autonomous lee. 2 delivers much better images than it did 2 days before all the effort paid off. it's a huge relief. to me so everything from now on is. on the top which should mean that we slow down and

do less but it's great was a success at lunchtime i didn't think. the next day the multi drone team welcomes a group of park or runners for a test 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. yes 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. the team immediately starts 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 it's in the recently. that we have in the draw to come more control on the process for food safety if the controller are as we know and we think we need to present these but. we don't know. how. i can see it seems with one.

so far a range of drone models have been used. the crash drone was the only one equipped with this emergency stop function. the team concludes the taking 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 . and these algorithms. use the information from all 'd of the flying drones. in order to detect some of the crowd. that means that the venue for serve.

in the. scene of the cross. or. not. first of all the. final preparations are under way for the annual around a rowing regatta it will 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 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. last 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. was. returning. the drones are coming to the end of their mission. charles called

foley 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 the really hard work and specially over the last 34 months and it's. a very very good spirit in the in the concerts here we wouldn't have achieved what we did achieve this is a nice combination go furder a body sark deficient in the in on cinematography i'm feeling in general on one thing that the smarter lace they didn't depart for the feeling of the future. or.

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