{"id":13102,"date":"2025-03-06T23:15:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T06:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13102"},"modified":"2025-01-02T23:27:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T06:27:54","slug":"drones-navigate-a-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13102","title":{"rendered":"Drones navigate a forest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Researchers at Zheijang University in Hangzhou have trained a drone swarm smart to fly autonomously through an unfamiliar forest, without a centralized control system. The drones communicated with each other and tracked a man moving through the forest. They published the results <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scirobotics.abm5954\">in a paper<\/a> in the journal\u00a0<em>Science Robotics<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L0fJ0EHHfOA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As with all things &#8211; this could be used to send drones into collapsed buildings to search for survivors, or used on the battlefield of the future. Since this is already 2 years old, you can imagine how much better such a system is today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Articles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/5\/23058160\/drone-swarm-autonomous-navigation-dense-forest-person-tracking\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/5\/23058160\/drone-swarm-autonomous-navigation-dense-forest-person-tracking<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Zheijang University in Hangzhou have trained a drone swarm smart to fly autonomously through an unfamiliar forest, without a centralized control system. The drones communicated with each other and tracked a man moving through the forest. They published the results in a paper in the journal\u00a0Science Robotics. As with all things &#8211; this could be used to send drones into collapsed buildings to search for survivors, or used on the battlefield of the future. 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