Drones are able to navigate around city streets..........

[ArmyVet]

It is just going to get better and better. If we can keep quads from being outlawed.

Thanks to an advanced DroNet algorithm, drones are able to navigate around city streets much like an automobile would – all without a driver!

https://www.wetalkuav.com/advanced-...ail&utm_term=0_1d410cb84d-b759b24d82-62572907

Amazing.

 

[Spork]

Very cool technology. I remember watching a video about the military testing unmanned vehicles driven by vision-based neural networks (same or similar tech as used by DroNet) - and the navigation hardware was about the size of a dorm room fridge. Crazy to think that it's now the size of a deck of cards or smaller.

 

[LoneRCRanger]

A picture is worth a thousand words. A video is worth a billion words.

 

[Spork]

Here's a video on Dronet testing I saw somewhere else:

 

[Jackson]

Sounds like fun. LOL

 

[ArmyVet]

Here's a video on Dronet testing I saw somewhere else:

Impressive!

Try that in Times Square thought.

The block diagram at 3:30 was self explanatory.............NOT!

 

[Spork]

Try that in Times Square thought.

The block diagram at 3:30 was self explanatory.............NOT!

Yeah, you can tell by how slow it's flying and dude is still following with a laptop that it still has aways to go - but they'll get there.

It's also pretty impressive that it's able to perform as well as it does on 200x200 pixel imaging. Our robot overlords don't need no stinking 4K! Apparently, 0.2K is plenty.

Oh and this: https://adeshpande3.github.io/adesh...-Understanding-Convolutional-Neural-Networks/

 

[LoneRCRanger]

I would think that in heavily trafficked areas the drone would fly at an altitude say 'streetlight high' That way it would be a good spy and not subject to attack like possible at the street level flying.

 

[LoneRCRanger]

Another good idea is deploying the drone from the roof of your car to search out why traffic is so slow and perhaps an escape route is possible. Then, it would return to the roof of your car to recharge for the next deployment.

 

[Spork]

I would think that in heavily trafficked areas the drone would fly at an altitude say 'streetlight high' That way it would be a good spy and not subject to attack like possible at the street level flying.

Yeah, I think you're right on this. I mean, when I think back to some of the sci-fi movies where they fly around cities in "spaceships" it looks like they have multiple levels of traffic above each other. I can see this being a good way forward with drone traffic flying above ground traffic.

 

[LoneRCRanger]

The Star Wars Episode 2 I think had multi-level lane for various flying craft. I guess we'll have to wait until the 24th Century to find out if that will be the norm.