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Natural Interaction With Flying Robots Via Kinect
garymortimer writes "Researchers at The Flying Machine Arena in the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control ETH Zurich control a multicopter drone with gesture based commands. The designers say they are 'looking for ways to make interaction with our vehicles natural and intuitive.'"
Then the next addon will be a Kinect controlled gun to shoot birds down.
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and then call them HK's, it'd be very cool.
Surely all you need to program in is a pointing gesture accompanied with a yell of "Attack, my swarming robot minions! AHAHAHAHA!"
There is nothing natural about interacting with flying robots...
What impressed me the most was the helicopter they were using. Put a camera on that with a feed. Add other things as well.
See, I could see squad cars in the future sporting these kinds of drones. You stop, get out, and the drone launches and gives you a birds-eye view and assistance. Give it verbal and hand signals. Military applications for this are endless, as are intelligence operations. What a fun time we live in!
Take the Red Pill.
...and boy, are my arms tired!
Sure it works within 20 feet in a very controlled environment; so what?
Most UAVs are much more usefull out of sight of the "pilot" and need much finer control than gestures can provide. Another issue is the space required to use gestures to control the UAV. Yeah, someone is going to set up a connects, stand 5 feet away and dance to control a UAV. That's not obvious. Great for game not so great for real life.
Cool but useless
With continuing unpopularity at the loss of life in wars with dubious motives, America invested more and more in automated units. From unmanned drones to remotely controlled tanks, to finally autonomous infantry robots. At first, this seemed to be a sound strategy when dealing with areas totally hostile to the US, but there was a problem. America had moved the biggest threat to their security from extremist terrorists, to bored teenagers in their bedrooms.
Early warning signs were ignored. The military hierarchy just couldn't grasp the notion that people would try to crack into their systems for no other motive than for fun, or that their systems could be so easily compromised. Often, by children no less. Compromises in security were covered up. Even when the automated infantry united kept breaking into song and dance routines.
- Extract from "Modern Warfare and Cake Making" (c) Alan Foreman
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ha, downvotes with no reason why, totally lame & cowardly.
You can see a proof of concept of this very thing SEVERAL WEEKS AGO on channel9
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/KinectSDK/BetaLaunch
see, didn't take bullshit "research" to make either.
Natural Interaction With Flying Robots Via Kinect
Am I the only one seeing everything that's wrong with this statement?
make interaction with our vehicles natural and intuitive
Shoo! Shoo!
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
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As soon as I read the summary, I immediately pictured guys in rooms with their arms outstretched, running around in circles going,"NEEEEEEEERRRRR" and making other plane flying/shooting/bombing sounds. :)
The kinect will only be useful when coupled with VR, to project an entire cockpit to a user sitting in a plain chair, allowing them to fly ANYTHING from ANYWHERE with just a change to the software profile. Until then all this flapping about is inefficient.
The Kinect has to be able to tell the difference between 2 'buttons' pressed one inch apart.