Raffaello D'Andrea: Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future
Raffaello D'Andrea: Entdecken Sie die glanzvollen Fluggeräte der Zukunft
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.
ein Milliardengeschäft zu werden.
photography and film and journalism:
Fotografie, Film und Journalismus:
applications for commercial drones,
Anwendungen für gewerbliche Drohnen.
are the capabilities being developed
package delivery
Bewusstsein eindrang,
built a six-meter-tall tower
im FRAC Centre in Frankreich
at the FRAC Centre in France,
aus 1 500 Ziegeln gebaut.
they started to fly with ropes.
mit Seilen zu fliegen.
und Beschleunigung auf engstem Raum.
and accelerations in very tight spaces.
tensile structures.
zugbelastbare Strukturen bauen.
with the physical world.
zu reagieren.
new projects that we've been working on.
ein paar unserer neuen Projekte zeigen.
of what can be achieved
des Möglichen im autonomen Flug
autonomously,
of its mobile objects in space.
im Raum sich die mobilen Objekte befinden.
to locate objects,
um Objekte zu finden.
dynamischer Tasks zu konzentrieren.
of highly dynamic tasks.
developed by Verity Studios,
von Verity Studios,
to determine its location in space
um die Position im Raum zu bestimmen,
to determine what its actions should be.
was die Maschine tun sollte.
are high-level ones
auf höchster Ebene.
to have its cake and eat it.
zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe zu schlagen.
it is efficient in forward flight,
ist es im Vorwärtsflug effizient,
and variations thereof.
in all ihren Variationen.
fixed-wing aircraft, however,
for takeoff, landing
bei Start und Landung,
to disturbances such as wind gusts.
wie Windböen reagieren.
architectures and algorithms
Steuerungen und Algorithmen,
die optimale Position wiedererlangt
improve its performance over time.
verbessert werden kann.
fundamental abstract questions
grundlegende abstrakte Fragen,
needed for controlled flight?
beweglicher Teile für kontrollierte Flüge?
the answer to such a question.
solche Frage wissen zu wollen.
as machines with a thousand moving parts
beweglichen Teilen bekannt,
ausgebildete Piloten
remote-controlled aircraft
that it could be done with just one.
dass Fliegen mit nur einem funktioniert.
controllable flying machine,
fernbediente Fluggerät.
einen Propeller,
no other control surfaces,
oder Kontrolloberflächen,
in its little electronic brain
and to move anywhere it wants in space.
und sich im Raum überallhin bewegen kann.
of the tail-sitter,
des Heckstarters.
to get it to fly,
of me throwing it just right is very low,
es genau richtig zu werfen,
that we shot last night.
gefilmt wurde.
is an exercise in frugality,
eine Übung in Genügsamkeit ist,
with its eight propellers,
mit seinen acht Propellern,
is that it is highly symmetric.
äuβerst symmetrisch ist.
to orientation.
in seiner Ausrichtung.
die auβerordentliche Fähigkeit,
zu bewegen,
with the interacting flows
der interaktiven Flüsse
while the rest can be learned on the fly.
der Rest wird direkt beim Fliegen erlernt.
to enter part of our daily lives,
Teil unseres Alltags sein sollen,
extremely safe and reliable.
sicher und verlässlich werden.
two-propeller flying machines.
Zweipropeller-Flugmaschinen.
to spin counterclockwise.
high-performance quadrocopter.
Hochleistungs-Quadrocopter.
electronics, even a battery pack --
die Elektronik oder ein Akku --
albeit in a degraded fashion.
wenn auch eingeschränkt.
by disabling one of its halves.
indem wir eine Hälfte flugunfähig machen.
coordinated entities
koordinierten Einheiten
for aesthetic expression.
an ästhetischem Ausdruck.
micro quadcopters,
Micro-Quadcopter --
than a slice of bread, by the way,
als eine Scheibe Brot --
with our localization technology
Lokalisierungstechnologie
knows where it is in space
will motivate you to dream up
diese Demonstrationen dazu,
for flying machines.
a flying lampshade on Broadway.
ein fliegender Lampenschirm werden.
difficult to predict
Technologie vorherzusagen.
is the journey and the act of creation.
in der Entwicklung und dem Schaffensakt.
the universe we live in is,
unser Universum ist,
klugen Geschöpfen erlaubt,
and economic potential
und wirtschaftliches Potential hat,
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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