program didn't advance. the drones are designed to work fully autonomous lee. far means advantage that you can fly with 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 a scenario. look back a few weeks when project partners from industry research in the media met at a country stage 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. 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 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 in media productions. it's not keeping. to try to travel to whole to keep the outside search 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 maurice your mountain waldo readies the 1st test scenario with cyclists as the focus this is jim 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 their record and the media stuff i have to. think about all the. shows and troubles about coming plays 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. 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. 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. the 1st time but we. do. so now we are facing right. before. place this is what happened when we are doing the real thing. the main challenges that we have. to try 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 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 of an entirely different quality. the other drone flies autonomous lee. to deliver so much better images than it did 2 days before all the effort paid off. it's a huge relief. to work so maybe it's 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. the next day the

multi drone team welcomes a group of park who are runners protest scenario number 3. the drones are in here ready to record but the rollers on one drone suddenly stop working. the team and here's district safety precautions that may well have saved people from getting hurt but unfortunately that can't be said of one of the $20000.00 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 out suddenly. for an unexpected thing

for control it feels really bad and of course it hurts but you know things happens. the team immediately starts of 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 recent. report that the we have in the draw if you come 1st some remote 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 exactly how. you can see it seems. to be the 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 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 another 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. algorithms. use the information from all of the flying drones. and not at the. end of the crowd. i mean for sure.

see the crowd. first of all the. final preparations are underway for the annual 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. and they're off. to. have taken a 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 li even though it's windy and humid. and the mission has to be aborted. thank you very much. it's. what you. feel. about. the drones are coming to the end of their mission. roll call. 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 and i think without it was really hard work especially over the last 34 months and. have ferry very good spirits in the in the concerts we wouldn't have achieved what we do the chief this is a nice combination low for robotics are deficient in him on cinematography i'm feeling in general on one thing that the smarter lace they didn't depart for the feeling of the future.

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