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07:04PM EDT – Second keynote at present is from Skydio
07:05PM EDT – Should be beginning right here in a second
07:06PM EDT – This speak is about autonomous flight
07:07PM EDT – ‘Enabling subsequent era’
07:08PM EDT – I all the time assume ‘autonomous flight’ is about flying individuals, however that is extra in regards to the subsequent gen of drones
07:09PM EDT – Starting with the historical past of drones
07:09PM EDT – First ones had been gasoline powered
07:09PM EDT – Then battery powered
07:10PM EDT – MEMs IMUs and GPUs
07:11PM EDT – Replacing legacy strategies cheaper and safer and sooner
07:11PM EDT – Cinematography, security, inspection
07:11PM EDT – 80% of a median drone finances might be consumed by pilot coaching
07:12PM EDT – confined flying management with ML
07:13PM EDT – appears to be like kinda cool
07:13PM EDT – Moving from age of handbook {hardware} to AI-driven drones
07:14PM EDT – Liken the custom much like flip telephone to sensible telephone
07:14PM EDT – now a video exhibiting usecases
07:15PM EDT – First US drone unicorn – $340M funding
07:16PM EDT – World chief in autonomous flight know-how
07:16PM EDT – $5.1B market in gross sales at present
07:16PM EDT – 2.3m items
07:17PM EDT – When drones are the dimensions of hummingbirds, what’s the market attain?
07:18PM EDT – 100x enterprise development over 10 years
07:18PM EDT – Today in stage 1/stage 2
07:19PM EDT – Always somebody hand-holding the drone proper now
07:20PM EDT – stage three is principally Drone as a Service – take images of your youngsters sports activities recreation with an app
07:21PM EDT – Skydio autonomy engine
07:21PM EDT – Sensors, algorithms
07:21PM EDT – 6x4K 360-degree fisheye cameras
07:22PM EDT – That’s greater than a tesla?
07:22PM EDT – Understand the geometry of the world round it
07:23PM EDT – Depth mapping
07:23PM EDT – Problem is detecting skinny constructions and wires
07:24PM EDT – understanding the setting
07:24PM EDT – conserving somebody within the shot no matter terrain
07:25PM EDT – producing a 3D view of the world, 3D mapping stay and evolving
07:27PM EDT – Simulated examples of use circumstances
07:27PM EDT – Building 3D maps in actual time as detailed as wanted
07:28PM EDT – 3D scan sounds cool
07:29PM EDT – Using NVIDA and Qualcomm
07:29PM EDT – Jetson TX2
07:30PM EDT – Qualcomm for communication I’d think about, or Qualcomm for ISP
07:30PM EDT – Imaging SoC (QC) and Navigation SoC (NV)
07:31PM EDT – Power finances – 100-200W consumes, 20-40 minute flytime. 1W of compute reduces flight time by 10 seconds
07:31PM EDT – Compute constraint is generally pushed by measurement/weight of the board
07:32PM EDT – Types of compute
07:34PM EDT – Deep Learning inference utilized in flight – eight fashions
07:35PM EDT – It’s a giant optimization downside
07:36PM EDT – mannequin with predictive management
07:36PM EDT – Motion planning with 6DOF
07:36PM EDT – How the rotor charges ought to evolve over time
07:36PM EDT – 500 iterations a second with 20+ targets
07:36PM EDT – ‘clean cinematic flight’
07:37PM EDT – Matrix solvers as per standard
07:39PM EDT – Custom differential geometry library
07:39PM EDT – void handwritten derivatives
07:39PM EDT – excessive stage symbolic python code
07:39PM EDT – Generated code is branchless
07:40PM EDT – Provided an order of magnitude speed-up on CPU
07:40PM EDT – discovering methods to use to different {hardware} by means of normal interfaces
07:41PM EDT – Still very early
07:41PM EDT – Real world suggestions – foundational constructing blocks
07:42PM EDT – must deal with all conditions, e.g. solar glare, in a manner that is accessible however optimized
07:43PM EDT – Q&A time
07:45PM EDT – Q: Compare to DJI – speak about market is evolving A: key distinction with Skydio is within the software program and what the consumer is asking them to do. Industry has been smoke…
