each of the drones developed for this project has a precisely defined flight path. to camera movements to work program to refinance. the drones are designed to work fully autonomous lead. armies advantage instead you can fly with the drones. and the drones 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 repeat the choreography precisely so it is necessary to have gotten on the small 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 production. 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 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 crawl 12 years to travel to hold her 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 perfect. so let's do it again. inside maurice 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 were i thought and the media stuff have to. think about all the technical. issues and troubles about coming plays no one when 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.

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 cameras auto focus 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 happened when we were doing the real thing. the main challenges that we have. tried to solve the following days. 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 works 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. it too delivers much better images than it did 2 days before all the effort paid off. it's a huge relief. good word so everything from now on is i see. on the top which should mean that we slow

down and do less but it's great with the success of. 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 year old plus drones. into really hurt because. well when you spend so much time working over. yes to. work on it just to have it in

time so things could work and it suddenly crushes. on expect a thing for control it feels really bad and of course it hurts about you know things happens. immediately starts admits to 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 resources. that the we have in the draw do come 1st some remote control. just for food safety if the controller for far as we know and we think we need to present these but. we don't know exactly how. you can see it see with us. right now.

so far range of drone models have been used. to crash drone was the only one equipped with this emergency stop function. the team concludes that they can keep the others flying and start getting a substitute ready for takeoff. safety is the top priority so this is tim 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. and these algorithms. use the information from all of the flying drones. to gather in order to detect some of the crowd.

see the. final preparations are underway for the annual. 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. 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. for. coming to the end of their mission. charles

de gaulle told foley be careful. 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 the really hard work especially over the last 34 months and. have 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 robotics are deficient in delhi on cinematography i'm feeling in general and i think that the smarter less they've been depart for good feeling of the future.

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