Monday, July 18, 2022

Autonomous Drones beat best human champions in first mostly fair indoor obstacle race track

Big news! Are you ready to book your first flight on an autonomous civilian airplane to go on a trip? 😄

"... Earlier this month, a trio of champion drone racers traveled to Zurich for a rematch, but this time, the race would be fair: no motion-capture system. Nothing off-board. Just drones and humans using their own vision systems and their own computers (or brains) to fly around a drone racing track as fast as possible. ...
As Thomas says at the end of the video, the autonomous drone made it through one lap of the course in 5.3 seconds. With a peak speed of 110 kilometers per hour, this was a staggering 1.8 seconds per lap faster than Thomas, who has twice won FPV drone racing’s MultiGP International World Cup. ...
Each [human] pilot had as much time as they wanted on the course in advance, flying more than 700 practice laps in total. ..."

Autonomous Drones Challenge Human Champions in First “Fair” Race - IEEE Spectrum Vision-based AI drones outfly world-class human pilots

Credits: Last Week in AI

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