The development team "taught" quadrocopter to catch ping-pong balls

The development team at the University of California at Berkeley has been working on software for the quadcopter for quite a while. This software allows the device to respond to changes in environmental conditions, correcting its own position in space. The video, posted in the continuation, clearly shows the difference between the "behavior" of a conventional quadcopter and a device with a software platform developed by the researchers.

New software also allows the device to calculate the flight path of various objects. For example, a ball for table tennis. At the same time, the quadcopter can even catch such balls in flight, with very high accuracy. There are, of course, miscalculations, but very rarely. The software platform was named by the developers of LBMPC (Learning Based Model Predictive Control).
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As you can see, the work was not in vain, and the device really responds well to commands, more accurately positions itself in space, and also catches the very balls mentioned in the title. A little more, and various shows with the participation of robots will become even more interesting, not to mention the benefits of such developments for science.



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