Raffaello D'Andrea: Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future
رافاييلو دوأندريا: لنقابل آلات المستقبل الطائرة والمدهشة
Raffaello D'Andrea explores the possibilities of autonomous technology by collaborating with artists, engineers and entrepreneurs. Full bio
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a multibillion-dollar industry.
مليارات من الدولارات.
photography and film and journalism:
وصناعة الأفلام و الصحافة:
applications for commercial drones,
التجارية المسيرة (بلا طيار)،
are the capabilities being developed
package delivery
الطرود جواً
built a six-meter-tall tower
ببناء برج بارتفاع ستة أمتار
at the FRAC Centre in France,
they started to fly with ropes.
and accelerations in very tight spaces.
في أماكن ضيقة جداً،
tensile structures.
with the physical world.
العالم الملموس.
new projects that we've been working on.
نعمل عليها.
of what can be achieved
autonomously,
of its mobile objects in space.
في الفضاء.
إي تي إتش في زيوريخ،
to locate objects,
لتحديد مواقع الأشياء
of highly dynamic tasks.
الديناميكية جداً.
developed by Verity Studios,
ستوديوهات (فيريتي ستوديوز)
to determine its location in space
لتحدد موقعها في الفضاء
to determine what its actions should be.
are high-level ones
هي الأوامر الهامة
to have its cake and eat it.
وأكلها.
it is efficient in forward flight,
فهي كفوءة في الطيران إلى الأمام
and variations thereof.
fixed-wing aircraft, however,
الثابتة الجناح
for takeoff, landing
to disturbances such as wind gusts.
architectures and algorithms
improve its performance over time.
fundamental abstract questions
needed for controlled flight?
المطلوبة للطيران الخاضع للتحكم؟
the answer to such a question.
as machines with a thousand moving parts
القطع المتحركة
remote-controlled aircraft
قيادة طائرات التحكم عن بعد
that it could be done with just one.
بقطعة واحدة فقط.
controllable flying machine,
الأبسط ميكانيكياً في العالم،
ولا دفات تدوير،
no other control surfaces,
in its little electronic brain
بعقلها الالكتروني الصغير
and to move anywhere it wants in space.
أينما تريد في الفضاء.
of the tail-sitter,
to get it to fly,
of me throwing it just right is very low,
هو احتمال ضعيف،
that we shot last night.
صورناه مساء أمس.
is an exercise in frugality,
with its eight propellers,
بمحركاتها الثمانية ،
is that it is highly symmetric.
to orientation.
with the interacting flows
while the rest can be learned on the fly.
الباقي خلال الطيران
to enter part of our daily lives,
من حياتنا اليومية،
extremely safe and reliable.
two-propeller flying machines.
كل منهما بمروحتين.
to spin counterclockwise.
high-performance quadrocopter.
ذات أداء عالي.
electronics, even a battery pack --
albeit in a degraded fashion.
ولو بكفاءة أدنى .
by disabling one of its halves.
coordinated entities
for aesthetic expression.
micro quadcopters,
من المروحيات الرباعية الصغيرة،
than a slice of bread, by the way,
with our localization technology
knows where it is in space
will motivate you to dream up
ستدفعكم لتحلموا
for flying machines.
a flying lampshade on Broadway.
في برودواي.
difficult to predict
is the journey and the act of creation.
هي المسيرة والابتكار.
the universe we live in is,
and economic potential
والاقتصادية الهائلة
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Raffaello D'Andrea - Autonomous systems pioneerRaffaello D'Andrea explores the possibilities of autonomous technology by collaborating with artists, engineers and entrepreneurs.
Why you should listen
Raffaello D'Andrea combines academics, business, and the arts to explore the capabilities of autonomous systems. As part of his research as professor of dynamic systems and control at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich), he and his collaborators enchant viewers with works like the self-destructing, self-assembling Robotic Chair, or the Balancing Cube that can perch itself on its corners.
D’Andrea and his team created the Flying Machine Arena to test the gravity-defying abilities of their athletic flying robots. Building on research in the Flying Machine Arena, ETH Zürich partnered with its spin-off company Verity Studios and with Cirque du Soleil to create “Sparked,” a short film showcasing the unexpected airborne dexterity of quadcopters. D’Andrea is the co-founder of Kiva Systems, a robotics company that develops intelligent automated warehouse systems and that was acquired by Amazon in 2012.
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