AI-Powered Drone Learns Extreme Acrobatics

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/drones/ai-powered-drone-extreme-acrobatics

by ohjeez • 6 years ago

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yencabulator• 6 years ago

I think the real gist here is

with only onboard sensing and computation

sdenton42• 6 years ago

Insects do a decent job flying without toooooo much compute, so I don't find it terribly surprising that this can be done on-device.

kkotak2• 6 years ago

Agreed. I have seen hummingbirds doing playful maneuvers that are mind blowingly quick and complex.

nynx• 6 years ago

Insects have way more compute than anything we can fit on a drone right now.

yakz• 6 years ago

Once someone starts producing a cheap drone ("missile") that can loiter and out-maneuver any human pilot if only because there's not a human on board limiting acceleration, what does the civilized world do for air superiority? It doesn't seem very many years away.

colordrops• 6 years ago

It's already here.

Florin_Andrei• 6 years ago

It will depend on who can flood the skies with more drones then.

gtoast• 6 years ago

Slaughterbots - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA

kkotak2• 6 years ago

Waiting for the battery tech to give 1hr+ fly time.

waiseristy• 6 years ago

We obviously need to start investing in matrix-like EMP tech

trhway• 6 years ago

In the current Azerbaijan/Armenia war the Turkish drones own the skies consistently winning over the USSR/Russia made air defenses thus continuing the winning streak that started in Syria and Libya. (We haven't yet seen how they would do against manned planes there as Turkish F-16s have so far successfully been taking care about the Armenian planes there)

out-maneuver any human pilot

for the last 30-40 years modern air combat usually consists of F-16/15 shooting down a USSR/Russia made plane using long range missile. I don't see any issues for the drones to carry on the tradition.

systemvoltage• 6 years ago

Can someone please explain why this is difficult? I think its trivial but I am often wrong about these things. It's got an accelerometer and a gyro. Doesn't even need vision to do this. Even simpler would be just a hard-coded program without a feedback loop except after the end of the stunt to level out the quadcopter.

mam2• 6 years ago

Yeah i'm in AI and i'm not sure if I should be impressed or not. It's not hard to train pretty much anything in simulation, which they did. The hardest part in robotics is the transfer to reality, which they actually did too, but i'm not sure HOW ? Is this domain randomization ? Simulation ehancement ? World model ?

ikura• 6 years ago

FTA they created an abstraction layer that makes the abstracted simulated environment closely resemble the abstracted real world environment, which increased the transferability of the model.

AI-Powered Drone Learns Extreme Acrobatics

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