Drones to spy, to zip, and actually have nothing Good in mind. Right? Wrong! Quadrocopter could do so much more. What we make of it is entirely up to us. Here are a couple of flagship examples
They are drones, the small, sum of the Bad Boys of our technological progress:. The perfect espionage tool, an Autonomous weapon. But hey – they also make great landscape shots. I’ll give them that.
Evil Drone!
But mainly, the term “drone is fraught with” just negative. A study by the German centre for air and space travel (DLR), in the case of 2018, the acceptance of drones was conducted.
The majority of the 1000 study participants with drones, therefore, espionage and Surveillance, but also with video recordings and surveys. However think of when you hear the word “drone” only 16 percent of the respondents to the military and weapons. The hope, with regard to the General reputation of the Quadrocopter.
And after all, 53 per cent are adjusted civilian drones to “be more positive”. In services of fire, rescue, and research, there is a high approval to use. Concerned, respondents are more likely to be in terms of the possible abuse.
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Artificial intelligence in the swarm
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Here are a few examples of how the world drones are a bit better could make.
Robot bees: Summ, summ, summ!
Have you even thought about where the drone has their name on it? No? The solution is so obvious: From your buzzing yellow-and-black model. As a drone (or a drone) is in fact also referred to the male animal in the case of honey bees, bumblebees and wasps. The robot bee is your animal Related to the Hand, so it is a matter of honor and important!
Because bees contribute to the pollination of around 80 per cent of our domestic crops and wild plants, and provide also a valuable honey. The basis for the honey the nectar the bees from the flowers of trees, shrubs, and flowers collect.
Bees (the Real ones) next to pigs and cattle to the main farm animals – which we make life by mono-cultures and the use of pesticides, however, quite heavy.
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Therefore, scientists and Start-Ups worldwide in a pollination aid. A Japanese team of researchers has reconstructed, for example, a mini copter so that it can pollinate plants. It is intended to support bees in the arduous work. The robot bee from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Tsukuba can fly in and out of a Plant, while the Pollen record and the next flowering again Stripping.
Researchers of the American Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are working on a RoboBee. For twelve years it has lasted up to the feasibility study, i.e. the prototypes. The shows, which is the art of engineering required to have the Original to recreate.
The technical copy from Harvard comes to your model, however, is already very close to 120 beats a second, creating the two ceramic wings like a real insect. Only RoboBee is made up of tiny plastic consists of hinges and a carbon fiber body. And: she’s still on a leash, which it supplies with power. For your use on the field is still unusable.
The drop copter, a US Start-Up, the pollination is somewhat different. In contrast to the Japanese mini-copter and the RoboBee he is not flying to flower of flower, but he distributes the Pollen of large-scale over the flowers. A promising idea!
But so far, none of these approaches comes close to the vibrant Original. Until then, we don’t have to protect himself, our bees by harvest, for example, always, every flower is the same.
SOS: drone, as a Savior in distress
The project SearchWing of the Augsburg University of applied Sciences has to build drone to the target, from a Rescue, which helps to shipwrecked refugees in the Mediterranean sea better.
The Styrofoam drone flies a pre-programmed course, makes images and return to the rescue ship. 100 kilometers is the range of the SearchWing. On a 45-minute flight, the drone shoots over 2000 photos, which are evaluated in the connector and after boot searched. That’s the theory. In practice, this works well – but not always. Before the drone can help can help organizations reliably, there is still some optimization needed.
A different approach to a drone by the name of “Auxdron”, the rescue of the West brings to the Drowning followed. It acts, however, are not Autonomous, but is controlled by a trained lifeguard. He controls the drone using the built-in camera for the victims. Auxdron can fly up to 80 kilometers per hour and is additionally equipped with an infrared camera.
However, that the drones forced to fly, is a mistake. According to the Definition drones to be unmanned, and this is “the Deep Drone 8000”. You can’t fly, but they are immersed. The U.S. Navy has developed this device in order to use it to Rescue at sea in up to 2500 meters in depth – for example, if a U-boat to be evacuated.
Drones do not have to fly. The specialty of “the Deep Drone 8000” is the diving.
Mosquito copter against pests
The mosquito copter has been developed to combat diseases such as Malaria, Zika and Dengue.
The principle is simple, but effective: a small drone distributed sterilized mosquito males in high-risk areas. Mosquito females, the Vectors of dangerous viruses that mate with the exposed males, but no offspring. Because mosquitoes mate only once, so the risk of a further spread of the transmitted, life-threatening viruses is considerably lowered.
With this method, Sterile insect technique (SIT) is called, can keep mosquito populations to be used regularly, sustainably and without harm to the environment is reduced. Refined, or? And for this use of drones are predestined really.
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Drones in agriculture
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In the service of the environment
Yes, drones can monitor, but you can also do this for a good purpose, for example, the deforested rain forests to replant again.
“DroneSeed” is an example of this. The drones are equipped with capsules filled with tree seeds and the shoot you over a certain area. A great relief. Because normally the forests are reforested by Hand. In addition to sowing, the drones can also be equipped with plant protection products, to protect newly growing forests from pests.
Also, the observation of hard-to-reach areas by drones, is clearly easier. The Great Barrier Reef is an example of this, or mangrove forests. To see “instead of just the tree, I see now, for example, the individual leaves. In the reef I can distinguish the various coral and algae. I can detect even fairly well-Sand, starfish, fish and sharks – the things I can on the satellite images do not recognize,” said Karen Joyce, environmental scientist at James Cook University in Cairns, Australia, in the DW-Interview.
Using the drones, surveillance, and infrared cameras, you can make hot and cold water visible. Thus, the researchers can conclude on the dynamics of water flow and how the corals and other creatures of the reef affected. “This is very interesting, because we couldn’t track before without the drone,” says Joyce.
And, are you convinced? At the end, drones are better than their reputation, if we want to.