Raffaello D'Andrea: Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future
Raffaello D'Andrea: Incontra le vorticose macchine volanti del futuro
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.
una industria multimilionaria.
photography and film and journalism:
per i droni,
applications for commercial drones,
are the capabilities being developed
package delivery
coscienza sociale,
built a six-meter-tall tower
al FRAC Centre in Francia,
at the FRAC Centre in France,
they started to fly with ropes.
and accelerations in very tight spaces.
tensile structures.
with the physical world.
con il mondo esterno.
new projects that we've been working on.
of what can be achieved
nel campo del volo autonomo.
autonomamente,
autonomously,
of its mobile objects in space.
to locate objects,
of highly dynamic tasks.
developed by Verity Studios,
to determine its location in space
to determine what its actions should be.
are high-level ones
to have its cake and eat it.
it is efficient in forward flight,
and variations thereof.
fixed-wing aircraft, however,
for takeoff, landing
to disturbances such as wind gusts.
architectures and algorithms
improve its performance over time.
fundamental abstract questions
di elementi mobili
needed for controlled flight?
la risposta a questa domanda.
the answer to such a question.
macchine con migliaia di parti mobili
as machines with a thousand moving parts
remote-controlled aircraft
that it could be done with just one.
più semplice del mondo,
controllable flying machine,
né altri attuatori
no other control surfaces,
in its little electronic brain
and to move anywhere it wants in space.
of the tail-sitter,
del posacoda,
per farlo volare,
to get it to fly,
of me throwing it just right is very low,
lo lanci in modo perfetto è molto bassa,
è mostrarvi un video
that we shot last night.
is an exercise in frugality,
with its eight propellers,
is that it is highly symmetric.
to orientation.
with the interacting flows
dalle sue otto eliche.
while the rest can be learned on the fly.
to enter part of our daily lives,
extremely safe and reliable.
da due macchine diverse.
two-propeller flying machines.
in senso anti orario.
to spin counterclockwise.
un quadricottero ad alte prestazioni.
high-performance quadrocopter.
electronics, even a battery pack --
albeit in a degraded fashion.
by disabling one of its halves.
coordinated entities
for aesthetic expression.
micro quadcopters,
than a slice of bread, by the way,
with our localization technology
knows where it is in space
will motivate you to dream up
for flying machines.
a flying lampshade on Broadway.
difficult to predict
difficile prevedere
is the journey and the act of creation.
the universe we live in is,
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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