Raffaello D'Andrea: Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future
Raffaello D'Andrea: Les époustouflants engins volants du futur
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.
en aventure industrielle.
photography and film and journalism:
pour les drones sont multiples :
photographie, cinéma ou journalisme.
applications for commercial drones,
are the capabilities being developed
au savoir-faire qui se développe
dans le monde.
package delivery
aériennes ne fassent partie de notre vie,
built a six-meter-tall tower
ont construit une tour de 6 mètres,
at the FRAC Centre in France,
au centre FRAC, en France.
volent avec des cables.
they started to fly with ropes.
et de fortes accélérations
and accelerations in very tight spaces.
tensile structures.
en autonomie des structures suspendues.
with the physical world.
avec le monde physique.
quelques-uns de nos projets en cours.
new projects that we've been working on.
of what can be achieved
du possible des vols autonomes.
autonomously,
de manière autonome,
la localisation de chaque objet volant
of its mobile objects in space.
to locate objects,
externes pour localiser les objets.
of highly dynamic tasks.
de tâches très dynamiques.
sur une nouvelle technique de localisation
developed by Verity Studios,
une spin-off du labo.
to determine its location in space
sa localisation dans l'espace
to determine what its actions should be.
qui détermine les actions à prendre.
are high-level ones
sont les plus sensibles :
to have its cake and eat it.
et l'argent du beurre.
il est très efficace pour voler,
it is efficient in forward flight,
and variations thereof.
fixed-wing aircraft, however,
for takeoff, landing
au décollage et à l'atterrissage,
to disturbances such as wind gusts.
comme les rafales de vent.
et algorithmes nouveaux
architectures and algorithms
puisse récupérer sa stabilité,
improve its performance over time.
qu'il améliore ses performances.
fundamental abstract questions
fondamentales abstraites
needed for controlled flight?
animés nécessaires pour contrôler un vol ?
derrière ses questions.
the answer to such a question.
as machines with a thousand moving parts
constitués de 1000 composants mobiles,
il y a des dizaines d'années de ça,
remote-controlled aircraft
équipés de deux composants animés :
that it could be done with just one.
qu'une seule pièce mobile suffit.
controllable flying machine,
le plus simple mécaniquement parlant,
une hélice.
ni ailerons.
no other control surfaces,
à plein régime,
in its little electronic brain
and to move anywhere it wants in space.
de manière stable,
sophistiqués de l'aile VTOL.
of the tail-sitter,
to get it to fly,
très précise.
of me throwing it just right is very low,
est très faible.
filmée hier soir.
that we shot last night.
is an exercise in frugality,
l'Omni Copter, composé de huit hélices.
with its eight propellers,
is that it is highly symmetric.
to orientation.
par rapport à l'orientation.
extraordinaires
ou de rotation sur lui-même.
with the interacting flows
à l'interaction des courants
while the rest can be learned on the fly.
Le reste est appris en volant.
to enter part of our daily lives,
partie de notre vie quotidienne,
sûrs et fiables.
extremely safe and reliable.
two-propeller flying machines.
équipés de deux hélices.
des aiguilles d'une montre.
to spin counterclockwise.
high-performance quadrocopter.
à haute performance.
electronics, even a battery pack --
l'électronique ou une batterie qui lâche,
quoique ses performances se dégradent.
albeit in a degraded fashion.
by disabling one of its halves.
en désactivant une moitié.
les essaims synthétiques.
coordinated entities
autonomes et coordonnées
à l'expression artistique.
for aesthetic expression.
micro quadcopters,
qu'une tranche de pain.
than a slice of bread, by the way,
with our localization technology
de notre technologie,
knows where it is in space
sa localisation dans l'espace,
will motivate you to dream up
vont vous inciter à imaginer
pour les objets volants.
for flying machines.
a flying lampshade on Broadway.
à Broadway.
difficult to predict
cette technologie naissante.
is the journey and the act of creation.
du voyage et du processus créatif.
est merveilleux et magique,
the universe we live in is,
à le ciseler de manière si spectaculaire.
économique et commercial extraordinaire
and economic potential
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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