{"id":104072,"date":"2020-03-21T07:07:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T14:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/drone-plays-dodgeball-to-demo-fast-new-obstacle-detection-system"},"modified":"2020-03-21T07:07:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T14:07:16","slug":"drone-plays-dodgeball-to-demo-fast-new-obstacle-detection-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/drone-plays-dodgeball-to-demo-fast-new-obstacle-detection-system","title":{"rendered":"Drone plays dodgeball to demo fast new obstacle detection system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BzykucxFddI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Obstacle avoidance is a crucial piece of technology for drones, but commercially-available systems just aren\u2019t fast enough for some situations. Now, engineers at the University of Zurich have developed a new system that gives drones such fast reflexes that they can play \u2013 and win at \u2013 dodgeball.<\/p>\n<p>According to the researchers, most current obstacle avoidance systems take about 20 to 40 milliseconds to process changes in their surroundings. That\u2019s fine for a drone gently approaching a building and finding its way inside, but it\u2019s no match for fast-moving obstacles like birds or other drones. That makes navigation a problem in certain situations, like when there are a lot of drones together or in dynamic environments like disaster zones, or when a drone just needs to move fast.<\/p>\n<p>So for the new study, the researchers kitted out a quadcopter drone with cameras specially designed to detect fast movement, as well as new algorithms that made them even faster. This cut the reaction time down to just 3.5 milliseconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obstacle avoidance is a crucial piece of technology for drones, but commercially-available systems just aren\u2019t fast enough for some situations. Now, engineers at the University of Zurich have developed a new system that gives drones such fast reflexes that they can play \u2013 and win at \u2013 dodgeball. According to the researchers, most current obstacle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}