Drona taught to avoid blows with a sword

Thousand devils, defend yourself, sir (Ross Allen, photo: YouTube)

Allen Ross, a scientist from Stanford University, who is currently preparing his doctoral dissertation, has developed a rapid response system for UAVs. This system allows a UAV to quickly evade an obstacle that occurs in front or side. And the object can be very small. Like a fencing sword, for example.

The system itself is called AgileQuad, the author described it in detail on Reddit . In addition, the scientist has published a video of the test system. At the beginning, the movements of the swordsman are fairly smooth, but then the person accelerates. And the drone continues to successfully evade attack.

Not only from direct attacks, but also from false attacks, just in case, so to speak. After each evasion, the quadrocopter returns approximately to the same place where it was before the attack.
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According to the scientist, such systems are important - after all, the drones are becoming more and more, and the scope of their application remains the same. AgileQuad can help take UAVs to a new level, where drones will work in difficult environments. Previously, other developers have already published a UAV video that flies through the forest and dodges obstacles at a speed of about 50 km / h, but the AgileQuad system seems to respond to the obstacles that appear even faster. True, the design of drones is different.



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