The next step in the smart drone revolution: Swarm of Pocket Drones
Themes: Robotics
Late lab scale demonstration
A TRL is a measure to indicate the matureness of a developing technology. When an innovative idea is discovered it is often not directly suitable for application. Usually such novel idea is subjected to further experimentation, testing and prototyping before it can be implemented. The image below shows how to read TRL’s to categorise the innovative ideas.
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Why?
Our research will allow the next step in the smart drone revolution: swarms of pocket drones able to fly and explore completely by themselves.
How?
We develop computationally extremely efficient artificial intelligence for pocket drones that fits on miniature electronic systems, such as a 4-gram stereo vision system or 2-gram autopilot.
When?
Where now we all have a smart phone, in 5 years we will all also have a pocket drone. Moreover, swarms of drones will then be integrated in your daily live.
Dr. Guido de Croon