Building a rope bridge with flying machines
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2015
- Building a rope bridge with flying machines in the ETH Zurich Flying Machine Arena.
The video shows quadrocopters autonomously assembling a rope bridge. This is part of a body of research in aerial construction, a field that addresses the construction of structures with the aid of flying machines.
In this work, a rope bridge that can support the crossing of a person is built by quadrocopters, showing for the first time that small flying machines are capable of autonomously realizing load-bearing structures at full-scale and proceeding a step further towards real-world scenarios. Except for the required anchor points at both ends of the structure, the bridge consists exclusively of tensile elements and its connections and links are entirely realized by flying machines. Spanning 7.4 m between two scaffolding structures, the bridge consists of nine rope segments for a total rope length of about 120 m and is composed of different elements, such as knots, links, and braids. The rope used for these experiments is made out of Dyneema, a material with a low weight-to-strength ratio and thus suitable for aerial construction. Of little weight (7 g per meter), a 4 mm diameter rope can sustain 1300 kg.
The vehicles are equipped with a motorized spool that allows them to control the tension acting on the rope during deployment. A plastic tube guides the rope to the release point located between two propellers. The external forces and torques exerted on the quadrocopter by the rope during deployment are estimated and taken into account to achieve compliant flight behavior. The assembly of the bridge is performed by small custom quadrocopters and builds upon the Flying Machine Arena, a research and demonstration platform for aerial robotics. The arena is equipped with a motion capture system that provides vehicle position and attitude measurements. Algorithms are run on a computer and commands are then sent to the flying machines via a customized wireless infrastructure.
In order to be able to design tensile structures that are buildable with flying robots, a series of computational tools have been developed, specifically addressing the characteristics of the building method. The design tools allow to simulate, sequence, and evaluate the structure before building.
The location of the scaffolding structure is manually measured before starting the construction. The primary and bracing structure can then be realized without human intervention. Before realizing the stabilizers, the locations of the narrow openings of the bridge are measured and input to the system, which adapts the trajectories accordingly.
More information and related publications can be found on the project website:
www.idsc.ethz.ch/research-dand...
www.gramaziokohler.arch.ethz.c...
Related roboHub article: robohub.org/watch-flying-machi...
* Credits
Aerial construction is a collaboration between the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control and Gramazio Kohler Research at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2015
* Researchers
Federico Augugliaro, Ammar Mirjan, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler, and Raffaello D'Andrea
* With contributions from
Maximilian Schulz, Marc-Andrè Corzillius, Michael Egli, Gregy Huber, Timon Winkler, Emanuele Zarfati, Mina Kamel, Gregory Bättig, Alexander Selwa, Evan Wilson, and Augusto Gandia
* Location
ETH Zurich, Flying Machine Arena - www.FlyingMachineArena.org
* Acknowledgments
This work is supported by and builds upon prior contributions by numerous collaborators in the Flying Machine Arena project. See www.flyingmachinearena.org.
This work was supported by the Hartmann Müller-Fonds on ETH Research Grant ETH-30 12-1 and by the SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation). - Наука та технологія
The apparent simplicity and ease with which these drones do the work hides hours of dedication and a lot of coffee cups .
Nice job!
I, for One, Welcome Our New Drone Overlords
+Gary Rudd
I wonder who would be "the first", willing to cross a deep crevasse (canyon) on a bridge built by a drone. (no safety back-up either).
+job guy BigDog from Boston Dynamics :)
Or just use a backup.
+job guy Its not so much who built it, but does it look safe?
You are the unsung heroes of the world. We need great minds like yours to move the world forward. Your work is very important to the progression of humanity. Keep pushing.
this would have benefited from the 'Flight of the Bumble Bee' playing in the background.
skynet
I see what you did there.
+Alexey Filippenko Hi.
+SkyneT, you finally arrived.
i'm amazed
Congratulations! Keep your research. The world needs brains like yours.
This is sick! Keep up the work...
+Sachin Ganpat haha,wanted to post the same comment.Totally sick
+Sachin Ganpat +stelios85 Robots don't get sick you clowns lol.
+Sachin Ganpat Came here to say Sick...Not "Totally SIck" which in hindsight is way better.
THEY TOOK ER JERBZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
derk a durrrr!
tuk e durrrrrbs!
+Henry Hazlitt broken jaw!
Cocka doodle do!!!
+Henry Hazlitt lmao! I just watched that episode last night. So good.
This is amazing, and what scares people is that drones will take photos in their windows. Get a brejk, this is real value ...
Cool considering that all they need to do is transport one side of a premade bridge to the other side and secure it. One human could cross and secure it even better if necessary. With special securing connections it could be even faster. Two of these bridges could fit in a relatively small pack.
Очень хорошие пилоты !
This is really cool, I could see this being used in rescue mission and such.
+Bill28120 there are many videos showing how they can be used beneficially without stupid stunts like so many idiots accomplish near airports and crowds. Commercial use will be tightly regulated to protect the public and assure reasonable advances. Look up "UAV uses" on UA-cam.
absolutely. I am investigating the trust into rescue robots and this example would be a great test to see whether rescue personnel would trust the robots construction and walk over the bridge! great work guys!!!!
+Bill28120 Good luck with that. Any damage to one propeller, or loss of one is instant death to the quadcopter. These things don't glide in that scenario, they drop like stones.
+John Smith They did a lot of bumping above just fine.
Bill28120 Well, when I race quadcopters and nick trees and stuff, at least half the propeller gone causes failure.
Nice project! :D
I'd get them to make me a nice jumper.
inspiring bit of experimentation and research, great job and thanks for posting!
So much for the moat around my castle!😮😎
rehanging wires after a storm amazing
Очень здорово. Молодцы!
Absolutely amazing! The sky is no longer the limit... Keep up the good work!
Fantástico!! parabéns os envolvidos
You just became my favorite person on youtube lol.
I want to make one suggestion; next time use little micro octocopters made to resemble spiders.
I saw the term 'autonomous' in the description above and I also had a look at some of the links. Can I assume the drones were pre-programmed rather than manually controlled. It seems a significant point to clarify.
+Geoff Wales Partially. They need a sensor net to work in.
+ApexMike It shows how useful drones will be, especially giving them more AI to navigate and complete set tasks. Sadly, the military will always be at the 'cutting edge', so to speak.
Astonishing! Great job
Fantastic! Cool engineering and programming!
once they learn how to tie proper knote we are doomed. ;D
very impressive. would be interresting to see a little "how did we do it", showing some of the effort that went into it.
WELL DONE !
Amazing work!
Now what would be amazing is if you guys get Boston Dynamics' Petman or Atlas to cross that bridge!
Flying, mechanical spiders, wow.
+4G3NTanon
All they have to do is get tangled once during the construction, then you would likely have to start whichever step it happened, over. I'm curious how long a span they could realistically construct across.
The larger the span, the larger the payload, the larger the drone.
The larger the drone, the less intricate maneuverability.
+job guy Why would they get tangled if they are programmed to follow a certain path? :)
+isl8
If you watch the video, they come "too" close. Also, that spool ends up leaving an awkward slack. Lastly, you would have to have a near WIND-LESS environment.
0:41
Imagine one of the blades of the drones hitting against the beams and landing on the onlooking crowd in a real scenario xD
awesome accomplishment!
Excellent!
Those propellers need some protection, otherwise wind could make the quads swing from side to side and get caught on the ropes.
this is awesome!!!
finally seeing the potentials of drones
keep up the drone work lol
amazing to see the great work
This was amazing!
Brilliant. Keep it up!
Interesting videoclip !
Just Beautiful!
awesome work man...
Incredible
AWESOME!
This is fantastic!
impressive. any outtakes?
Now we need a BostonDynamics robot to cross the bridge, and the rescue the very attractive calculator on the other side.
😁😃🤙
Excellent.
OK, this is pretty cool!
It`s wonderful!!!!
This is awesome.
Ну может быть когда нибудь такие роботы нам и помогут )
Very cool - nice work!
I really like that you used the term 'flying machine' rather then 'drone' :P
I usually say "RC" just to mess with people. :D
awesome ..n it is just glimpse of future robot's.
Impressive!
Reminding me of of auto repair drones in Starcraft.
Awesome~!!
Nice trick, but can you do the same outdoors without the VICON cameras?
this is so amazing!
If the fly machines can still do it without need of the white covered fabric, this can go for production
Wow. Just wow.
AWESOME! But can they make tea?
So how do the drones localize so quickly and accurately? I see external cameras, but there must be more than that. Can you please shed some lights? Thanks!
what kind of drones capable to build the bridge for transport like cars or tanks?
Amazing.
Here comes SkyNet!
amazing!
Impressive.
Woah! Well done!
woWWW! amazing!!! :)
Genious!
this is just awesome
Any more work in this area?
Wow so much epic, I would love to do things like this for a career,.
perfect video for utilizing youtube's 2.0 speed
COOL!!!!!😁
Who would say that Drones are just "for fun"? ;-)
Pretty cool. I realize this is beside the point, but those scaffolds do not look very secure...dudes are lucky their body weight did not cause a scaffold to tumble.
Can this be done outside?
this is amazing
pretty awsome :)
Did you use custom code or something open source?
This is amazing :D I wonder if they ever crash into the ropes :P
+adribier nope, they use sensors to detect them
If they can build a rope bridge like that, I bet they could even build a sky net of some description
Lets first send an army of quadcopters to Mars and build some colonies before we send humans!
Very good research, but in real life we can't use it. How to build bridge 50m long or 100m? How to connect steel cable?
+Mihail Vovk not now....but soon....SOOOOON MUHAHAHAHAH
+Mihail Vovk For improvised bridges before a real bridge is built this is great. I think there are some heavy duty drones out there who are able to transport long cables and do that trick. It's not made for forever but as a short period, small bridge this is awesome
+Mihail Vovk they will use helicopters and spend few days doing it.. :D ....... this idea with drones is nice but only for small distances, (and for those distances it would be faster to just cut down a tree :D :D
+Katojana Aleksielsis
Would you be the first to walk across it?
job guy Me personally not. But there are brave people out there who do. See the rock climbers who free climb mountains to put in hooks for the people coming after them. But without any protection for themselves.
super awesome
Fantástico
This is cool and all but it wont be a very good bridge since the drones arent cabable of making a taut bridge. This will only be a bridge good for a few uses before its completely useless.
That's where humans come in. We're still good for some things... ...for now.
+spoofer20 I think the purpose was clearly not to build a permanent bridge, nor does this prove that machines or drones aren't capable of such a thing. It demonstrates tiny flying things pretty quickly weaving a bridge strong enough to hold people, imagine the applications they were going for. Emergencies/rescue, travel/recreation, construction/maintenance, military, etc.
@@imagoatbah better than having a Slaughter Bot after you. 😊
That is so fucking cool.
come si separano tra loro e con gli altri oggetti?
in extreme condition, we send drone to do things.
but can these drone fly without problem and swinging around doing this under Strong wind day?
The way of the future.....The way of the future......The way of the future......The way....
Anyone else notice that it sounds like they're making happy guinea pig/rat noises whenever the camera is close enough to record the engine noises?
Now if we could make this process take seconds instead of minutes.
impresionante
You know how they need cameras to do this? Well, maybe if they need to do this in a place with no cameras set up. They could get other drones to hold the cameras!
Is this a world record
Let see how it works in a strong winds environment.
awesome