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Out of curiosity, how do you handle avoiding long thin objects (cables, power lines)? Is this something that modern drones can handle now, or something that re
by jfim 7y ago
Out of curiosity, how do you handle avoiding long thin objects (cables, power lines)?
Is this something that modern drones can handle now, or something that requires careful flying?
- HALtheWise 7y agoThin objects are really hard, and are probably the single area we have made the most software progress since the R1, especially very thin twigs and branches (it's still not perfect, fly carefully). We completely rebuilt the stereo vision algorithms to try to handle those better, basically by incorporating semantic knowledge (recognizing what is a tree, or a power line) in addition to traditional stereo vision techniques. To my knowledge, our systems are significantly more advanced than even the state of the art in academic research papers, so I would be impressed if there are any other drones that match our performance today.
- jfim 7y agoNice, great job! I'm glad to know that those hard objects are handled, I'll probably put in a pre order today.