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The news release said, "CEO Mark Fields said a goal is to set up a system, for example, where a United Nations emergency worker could launch a drone from an F-150 to survey a disaster scene.
“A drone will actually have the coordinates and be able to then land back into the bed of the F-150, even though it’s in another location,” Fields told WWJ Auto Beat Reporter Jeff Gilbert.
The rapidly deployable surveying system ideally would work like this: A response team would drive an F-150 as far as possible into an emergency zone caused by an earthquake or tsunami. Using the Ford SYNC touch screen, the driver could identify a target area and launch a drone through an app
. The drone would follow a flight path over the zone, capturing video and creating a map of survivors with associated close-up pictures of each.
Using the driver’s smartphone, the F-150 would establish a real-time link between the drone, the truck and the cloud, so vehicle data can be shared. Data will be relayed to the drone so the driver can continue to a new destination, and the drone will catch up and dock with the truck."
Anybody interested in working on this challenge?
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*Good towards Inspire Pro Package Only
First prize in the Jimmy challenge is a $100 DJI gift certificate
Post a video of the Iris+ landing on the truck and explain how you tricked the drone into thinking it's not moving anymore. I have tons of Iris parts so crash away.
The Jimmy Truck Challenge 2016. :) Where is your rules package?
If I win, you can keep the money, but I will send you a box of crashed copters for repair. :)
Ok. I issue the $100 Truck/Car Challenge. If you can land your drone on a vehicle doing 10 mph, I send you the money.
The problem is the requirement to have access to a brand new F150.
We could always make it a T3 competition and move the decimal point across on the prize money to 1 or $10 I guess ten would buy some beer in most places in the world!
What DJI only? I guess I should have read the fine print. It could still be interesting to do the challenge with a real platform not limited to a toy.
Yep. This is for DJI only. Rather disappointing on Ford. Makes the whole competition uninteresting.
Who would even think about using a DJI system for real Search and Rescue? They're just toys. Just taking advantage of hype IMO.
@Jim
Many thanks. However, as Oleksandr mentioned, the competition requires using the DJI platform. You can see all of the competition details here: http://developer.dji.com/challenge2016/
@Nicholas
I am curious to see the actual rules package. It seems like they want some of the navigation to be handled by vision sensors, rather than GPS... Even if they mark the truck w/ GPS, the fully automated landing on a small, moving area is still a challenging problem. I would like to watch the attempts. :)
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