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Getting Small UAVs To Imitate Human Pilots Flying Through Dense Forests
New submitter diabolicalrobot writes "The Robotics Institute at CMU has been developing systems to learn from humans. Using a Machine Learning class of techniques called Imitation Learning our group has developed AI software for a small commercially available off-the-shelf ARdrone to autonomously fly through the dense trees for over 3.4 km in experimental runs. We are also developing methods to do longer range planning with such purely vision-guided UAVs. Such technology has a lot of potential impact for surveillance, search and rescue and allowing UAVs to safely share airspace with manned airspace."
This could save lives!
To the second moon of Endor.
Perhaps I should port the source code into Battlefield 3 so I don't crash the helicopter all the time.
sudo make me a sandwich
> Such technology has a lot of potential impact for surveillance, search and rescue...
and killing people.
I never went into robotic vision because nearly all of the immediate applications are military.
Armed with a small LED or lasers to paint targets for small missiles, it could allow principals, police and govt agency personnel to eliminate offenders in whatever act.
From the summary 'Such technology has a lot of potential impact "
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wfZB0NfMHJM http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hNsP6-K3Hn4
They need to imitate birds. Duh.
to the most common aviation accident:
CFIT (human) = Controlled Flight Into Terrain
CFIT (Machine) = Controlled Flight Into Tree
Set your phasers on "funky"!
It's called a cookie. TAKE THE COOKIE!
a lot of potential impact for surveillance
Nothing that a shotgun can't fix. Yet.
-- Home is where you eat your heart out.
I want a drone that flies around my houses and fixes all the dren that I don't want to fix.
You know, broken light bulbs, empties the gutters, etc.
PS: I don't reply to ACs.
Why can't we all just get a Looj?
"No fear. No envy. No meanness." Liam Clancy
...at flying through dense forests?
Why not have it imitate birds?
I for one welcome our multi-rotored overlords.
In the real world a UAV will need to deal with horizontal features like power lines, fences and fence rails - all things that trip up human aviators far too often. The first video in TFA showed it using the increasing horizontal (left-right) velocity of picture elements to correlate with something vertical like a tree approaching the monocular camera, but ended abruptly as the AR.Drone was approaching a wooden fence. I would have really liked to have seen it deal with that fence as well, say by momentarily increasing its altitude to clear it.
Who flies through dense forests? If you want to imitate a typical human pilot caught in a forest, make the drone say:
"Aaaah, we're gonna diieee!"
Table-ized A.I.
Hey buddy: you have the wrong crowd. Most slashdotters have never touched a shovel before. They like to keep their hands clean. Try putting that in a forum for people who actually use more than their keyboards for a living.