any chance. the drones are designed to work fully autonomous lee. far means advantage instead you can fly drones. and the drones do exactly what you want 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 rip 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. the scenario 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 on media productions. it's not keeping the altitude so you have to try to try. to keep the outskirts and also work against him thanks from like we are and. you have to compensate the position to keep and remain the position. of the earth. so let's wait again.

inside marie and waldo 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 buy records 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. all the technical details are taking 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 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. 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. right now is the 1st time but we've got to do. so now we are facing. before. place this is what happened 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 to focus 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 delivers much better images than it did 2 days before all the effort paid off. it's a huge really. good 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. next day the

multi drone team welcomes a group of park or runners protest scenario number 3. the drones are in the air ready to record but 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 and 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 and it's suddenly. for an unexpected thing

that it's for control it feels really bad and of course it hurts about you know things happens. the team immediately starts it mr 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 resources. that we have in the draw to come 1st so remote control on the process for food safety if the controller fails for us we normally think we present this but. we don't know exactly how. with. 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 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 . these algorithms. use the information from all 'd of the flying drones. in order to detect some of the crowd. that means that the remedy for serve. in the. sea the crowd but there's been all these.

or. now that i want to. know about the. first of all of this area. in berlin final preparations are underway for the annual around guns 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. the race starts. and they're off. to. have taken up position on the 15 kilometers route to be ready for their 1st real deployment. everybody in position. to. give extra wide berth 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 lee even though it's windy and humid . and the mission has to be aborted. thank you very much. still. which. was. returning to seville the drones are coming to the end of their mission. charles foti it's all girls falling. 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 a really hard work especially 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 further a body sark deficient 1000000000 on cinematography i'm feeling in general and i think that the smarter lace they've been deposit for day feeling of the future.

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