Racing to the Future: AI Drones vs Human Drones

Racing to the Future: AI Drones vs Human Drones - Who Will Reign Supreme?

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Full coverage of the University of Zurich AI drone race vs world class drone racing pilots from the US, Switzerland and Australia.
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Note: Neither the Vicon or Vision drones have any idea about the location of their human competitor on the track and as such they don't attempt to overtake carefully but rather simply fly the learned racing line and if lucky, no collision occurs.
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00:00 Introduction
00:39 Robotics & Perception Group
01:19 Why use AI to race?
02:15 The AI Drones
05:02 Vlog First Morning in Zurich
07:05 University of Zurich Interview Alex & Thomas
08:27 Alex Vanover vs Thomas Bitmatta 6S Drones
09:28 University Data collection
10:02 Some AI Crashing
11:26 Vicon Drone Solo Flight
11:58 Thomas Racing the Vicon Drone Public day
14:36 Vicon System Scoring a win against MarvFPV
15:23 Vision Drone Racing Head to Head
17:07 Thomas careful overtake of AI Vision
Gear that Thomas Runs on his Race Fleet
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Пікірлер: 527

@lililililililili8667 Жыл бұрын

This is so cool. It's kinda scary to think about Vanover/Thomas tier AI droneswarms on a search and destroy mission.

@rambozo_fpv176 Жыл бұрын

*rescue ;)

@Ezio470 Жыл бұрын

@@rambozo_fpv176 trust me the military will be in on it before anyone else. so destroy it is.

@Skunkhunt_42 Жыл бұрын

@@Ezio470 China got the tek down

@haifutter4166 Жыл бұрын

@@endiii27 They may have autonomous drone swarms already, but I doubt they are as fast and agile as the new system here, as this is cutting edge research.

@ZED-PV Жыл бұрын

Kinda? You mean absolutely bloody terrifying.

@omgkennyisliving Жыл бұрын

I think it's important to keep in mind that the drones were compared to world champions, not your average human operating a drone :D so the vision based drone is already insanely good

@cibergenio Жыл бұрын

si señor tiene mucha razon esos vuelos que muestran no lo hace un piloto comun ,,el dron fue superior en realidad ,

@leovolont Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I wish I could take a look at the AI Architecture. You see, Artificial Intelligence works best where Humans are involved in the least. It takes a lot of computing power, which most schools do not have, but the Best AI just needs DATA, and a library of known regressive curves, and let the Artificial Intelligence create its own Algorithms, to set up Predictive Modeling which it then can refine by LEARNING. I think that an AI System that can't do as well as Humans must have Human Contamination, that the only LEARNING comes from Human Students getting in to tweak their own algorithms, meaning that it really isn't AI, is it? Real AI is just setting up the Architecture and then hitting RUN. It's got to be Data Rich at the beginning to save time later, during the Learning Phase, but the AI should be able to optimize itself. Really, the entire point of AI is to eliminate Human Beings. So if Students are there, then it isn't Artificial Intelligence, no, it's just a very complex and fallible human designed Algorithm full of the same Errors that Human Beings always drag along behind their Monkey Azzes.

@Yusuf-ge5gq Жыл бұрын

@@leovolont No, this is an AI

@leovolont Жыл бұрын

@@Yusuf-ge5gq good morning Yusuf. Whoever created the term AI was NOT THINKING. It was probably some Computer Science Idiot and not a Philosopher. You see, ALL Intelligence is inherently ARTIFICIAL. Only Stupidity is Natural. But Intelligence can be either Biological or Machine. Do you understand what I am saying? I am saying that I refuse to be Stupid because everybody else doesn't seem to be fighting this NONSENSE. Also, "Machine Intelligence" SOUNDS better. Are you convinced yet?

@awwtergirl7040 Жыл бұрын

Their ability to adapt quickly outside their AI algorithms is still an issue. Throw more ever changing variables you can overwhelm them.

@OhGAAH Жыл бұрын

This is so impressive. Thomas (and Alex) you must be very proud to have assisted in this project. Looks like you had a lot of fun too. :)

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thanks Graeme 😊

@thebrowns5337 Жыл бұрын

It's a program to help AI drones detect targets faster. Yes, sold as rescue targets but I think we can all expect the military complex is already stealing this data.

@BMSThomas Жыл бұрын

Thanks Graeme!! It was awesome to be there in person!

@finkelmann Жыл бұрын

Every time a researcher doesn't know how to justify their research - "let's say you need to search for survivors in a collapsed building..." :) Jokes aside- really interesting video! i've been following this group's work for several years and was always waiting for such a challenge!

@kryplus5471 Жыл бұрын

Yeah indeed, I'm pretty sure that this technology will be bought by the military to develop kamikaze drones that will fly at +100 km/h and avoid any obstacle automatically until they reach the target!

@igorkh6621 10 ай бұрын

...to find last survivors..

@brendansimons6811 Жыл бұрын

This is great. I read the university's press release a few weeks ago, but your video does a fantastic job of covering the whole event and the details of what was accomplished. Thanks for sharing!

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊 for watching

@CurryKitten Жыл бұрын

Very interesting video. I assumed part of the data collection from the neuroscientists was about learning how you think about maneuvering your quads in races? Obviously, there's a long way to go in stand-alone vision drones - not just being able to map what's ahead in 3d but understanding the materials, risks of 1 route vs the other... which is a colossal amount of computer task to stick on top of a quad right now, but it's a very interesting prospect. As they continue on their racing theme, I think it would be a good exercise for them to start flying multiple vision drones at once and start thinking about making decisions about when to back off and when to go for it... as well as being able to correct their lines.

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

You're 100% correct, there is a long long way to go for this, glad to see someone recognises this 👍. Realistically it's only the first baby step. In fact the university didn't even really understand drone racing.

@A380Flying Жыл бұрын

Amazing to see where this sport has and is taking you guys ! What an experience!! Super job

@EssexRc Жыл бұрын

I was so looking forward to this and you didn't disappoint, I only wish it were a longer episode! Thank you for sharing the experience and fantastically documented Paul. It was great to see you with Alex too! I'm sure I said it to you some years back and I'm 100% by no means the first to say, but we sooo need to see the 2 of you with Minchan. Best wishes from the UK 🇬🇧 👊🏼

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

The same offer was open to Minchan but he declined. We've got some more content on this, so may be able to show some more if people are interested.

@BMSThomas Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching :D Ha ha that would be a fun team to fly with 😍

@AbdulAleemShekhani Жыл бұрын

Amazing, been waiting for this! Thanks for sharing, I'm gonna get the popcorn and enjoy every last second :D

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

@32bitsofGil Жыл бұрын

Fantastic video Thomas! Cinematography, editing, writing, it was just wonderful and I’ve been looking forward to this one.

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much buddy! Miss Ya heaps! - Paul

@BMSThomas Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Gil!! I'm glad you enjoyed it 🤩

@David__ Жыл бұрын

🙏🏼 Wow! Thank you for sharing more of this amazing experience. Very interested to see how things progress in this space. Brilliant edit too! 👏

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊for watching David

@BMSThomas Жыл бұрын

Thanks David!!

@djSpinege Жыл бұрын

blows my mind to think i've been following the channel for 8 years now! what an epic journey.

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Yep, who would have thought. I guess you never know where life takes you. Thank you

@RockFPV Жыл бұрын

It was awesome to see you guys flying in Zürich! Incredible performance from everyone!

@jonbecherer5103 Жыл бұрын

This is right down my alley, thank you for producing this

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

@DanielBarrios83 Жыл бұрын

That was an amazing video... So much interesting information

@jasonstahl73 Жыл бұрын

That is fantastic. I can't wait to see this again in a year or two.

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

It's going to be fascinating to see where this all goes hey

@ziimez_fpv9715 Жыл бұрын

very interesting, and well documented video. What's most impressive to me is that it's even possible to steer the drone vision based and at that speeds. Well done pilots and engineers

@tubekrake Жыл бұрын

They probably know where they are from the gyroscope data, but use the ai vision to recognize more precise where they are and use that to correct there pre programmed route.

@infiniteefpv Жыл бұрын

This is so awesome, love to see the frontier being pushed

@MCsCreations Жыл бұрын

Fantastic video, guys! Thanks!!! And amazing flying there, Thomas! 😃 But yeah, they're training SkyNet earlier than I thought. 😬 Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thank you buddy, stay safe too

@BMSThomas Жыл бұрын

Always thanks for watching MC! Tech is moving quick 😅

@JarredBaines Жыл бұрын

Impressive video Tom - I can tell this took a lot of effort. And so damn interesting! Thanks for sharing!

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

@BMSThomas Жыл бұрын

Thanks dude!!

@tq64to4 Жыл бұрын

What a great video! You guys killed it

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thank You 😊

@samsonfpv8902 Жыл бұрын

I love how confidence pours out of Alex. Good stuff 👍

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Alex is a pretty cool character for sure!!

@MrE. Жыл бұрын

Thank you for taking us on this journey with you, just amazing all round!

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@MrE. Жыл бұрын

@@BMSWEB Spammers replying to comments on here masqurading as you, see below.

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

@@MrE. Thank you so much for giving me the heads up, very much appreciated. Looks like it was done using multiple accounts with slight variation in the number of spaces in the name. Anyway I'm pretty sure I managed to block all those accounts for now

@MrE. Жыл бұрын

@@BMSWEB No problem!

@frasermarine1495 Жыл бұрын

@@BMSWEB is this" dji mavic 3 win" part of the spammers issue?

@RudyBanks Жыл бұрын

This was awesome! Thanks for sharing!

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

@dafbfd58 Жыл бұрын

I remember watching you run into the field after school to review a new plane with your father. I have enjoyed watching you grow in your abilities.

@BMSThomas Жыл бұрын

Thanks Ryan!! Honestly still kind of mind blown where this jouney has taken us!

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thanks Buddy, it's amazing how far things have come hey. So good hearing from followers from way back

@WATCHMAKUH Жыл бұрын

Awesome stuff. Love how fpv is evolving into something greater!

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

@levit8 Жыл бұрын

really like this format - nice Vid

@BMSThomas Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@kakafpv Жыл бұрын

Great video bro, nice information

@blondie6222 Жыл бұрын

Well done Thomas and team this was so well documented and narrated

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

@DroneDFPV Жыл бұрын

Crazy fast! Nice video team BMS.

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

@AverageFPV Жыл бұрын

Fantastic video! Having been there on the day and seeing the races was just incredibly impressive! Hopefully, this competition between humans and ML will continue to push both sides and ultimately help in real world applications.

@MrTeklar Жыл бұрын

And hopefully competition will remain peaceful. Otherwise I for one welcome our new AI drone overlords.

@Grunchy005 Жыл бұрын

These drones are going to carry a grenades to kill targeted people. They need to work out that ability to race side-by-side, because they are going to be sent out 12x at a time until the target is eliminated.

@ThatFlyinRyan Жыл бұрын

great video dude !!!

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

@GoblinFPV Жыл бұрын

It was awesome to watch!

@baggszilla Жыл бұрын

Thanks Thomas! You and Vanover are incredible!

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

It's pretty cool how well those to get along!!

@baggszilla Жыл бұрын

@@BMSWEB like minded people. That's why this hobby is the greatest!

@pikachua6449 Жыл бұрын

Just commenting to support this awesome channel!

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the support

@Pandoracasting Жыл бұрын

This was amazing!

@iMadScience Жыл бұрын

Glad to see someone take on this game I once visualized.

@DoubleBFPV Жыл бұрын

Great video! Thanks for sharing!

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

@strepto42 Жыл бұрын

That was very cool guys! Christian is such a nice guy too, I've flown with him and Elia in Zurich. Amazing to see you all doing such nifty stuff!

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

So Cool!!! Zurich is an amazing place that's for sure

@BMSThomas Жыл бұрын

Wow I had no idea you knew those guys!! Thats awesome. Glad you enjoyed it! See you at Australian Drone Nationals :D

@strepto42 Жыл бұрын

@@BMSThomas @bmsweb Yes lots of catching up to do this weekend!

@GiovanniBalestrieri Жыл бұрын

Impressive. We are underestimating the ability of machines to learn from humans and share their knowledge. We are still missing critical infrastruttures to allow knowledge transfer at high speed. Love your content mate, a Fpv drone pilot and robotics engineer

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

@WKfpv Жыл бұрын

Amazing video Thomas!

@hueyfpv Жыл бұрын

This is AMAZING!! well done to you guys. :D

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@BMSThomas Жыл бұрын

Thanks Huey!!

@calman_fpv Жыл бұрын

Great video! Thx!

@goldridder 11 ай бұрын

This was incredible. I hope to see leaps and bounds over the next 12 months

@probeast1709 Жыл бұрын

Thanks bro that was really helpful

@dimasoktova1724 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing the experience

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

@jdamage5002 Жыл бұрын

THAT IS AWESOME.. After flying 6 years FPV who would of thought that they would be AI computer controlled to do corkscrews tighter than I've ever seen.. That was crazy and awesome.. I see a military contract all day long.. Good luck and thank you for showing us this.. This could have easily been considered classified..!!

@Grunchy005 Жыл бұрын

This was never anything but military. I notice their "rescue" bots never bother carrying any search & rescue equipment through the course. All they need is a few grams of nerve agent and crash into somebody's face, mission accomplished...

@YONKERS0814 Жыл бұрын

awesome work guys !

@siddharthasarkar7036 Жыл бұрын

the fact that automating movements in 4 d space, unlike car/boat automation in real life which is exceptionally tough to get it precise, and these makers made an automated complex flightpath at great speed with great accuracy is incredible. I wish to be part of this kind of team someday and i will make a competition for this amazing auto/AI drone

@SiggyNowak Жыл бұрын

Great video. Very interesting to see all this innovation. Well done guys.

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thank you Siggy 😊

@BMSThomas Жыл бұрын

Thanks Siggy!!

@zer001 Жыл бұрын

Awesome Video! Andy very nice explained.

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

@Bianchi77 Жыл бұрын

Nice info, thanks :)

@c.j.829 Жыл бұрын

Big THX for this Content .. i love it.

@BMSThomas Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! :D

@ratchet_hoe Жыл бұрын

Giving me Kasparov vs Deep Blue vibes. Awesome video!!

@ashleyarundel3134 Жыл бұрын

Great video, Ty

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

@EJ-74 Жыл бұрын

WoW that's fricn insane 😳😱 Nice flying guys 🔥👍🏻✌️

@gazzabyerun9048 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting! Lots of speed on a small track, wow! Good luck with your adventure's.

@walkofshamebadairdayfpv6120 Жыл бұрын

Great video

@TheJacobbridges25 Жыл бұрын

So happy that fpv has been getting so much love past year

@ZulkifliAbraham Жыл бұрын

Nice performance you got there. thank you

@BMSThomas Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@StacemanFPV Жыл бұрын

That was awesome!

@mikefawkes5010 Жыл бұрын

awesome video :) impressive work

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

@pandemiofpv Жыл бұрын

good video bro !

@ronnyrengkung7894 Жыл бұрын

Nice Info | Great Tech,.....!! Thank you for sharing with us,....!!!🙏

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thanks Buddy

@jbalatutube Жыл бұрын

Well done Thomas nice narration and story line it felt like watching a documentary. I'm sure its just a matter of time before the logic in the AI drones is improved to do more than just try to get through the course at the fastest time then you may have to watch out. BTW what a great experience for you !!!

@WigganRC Жыл бұрын

Great video Thomas 👍🏾💪🏾🔥

@BMSThomas Жыл бұрын

Thanks Wiggan!! Miss you man!!

@MSR. Жыл бұрын

I watched some of this live on Instagram, pretty crazy stuff they are doing there 👊

@lllCAP Жыл бұрын

awesome stuff!

@MRdeLaat 5 ай бұрын

would love to see updates on this and see the dvr footage this is just awsome

@ThomasAndersonFPV Жыл бұрын

Such a cool video!

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thank You 😊

@DarrenAllatt Жыл бұрын

Mind Blown!

@Andrew-ig5sp Жыл бұрын

Incredible a person can fly like that!

@atomichemi Жыл бұрын

Fascinating the thought of this technology once it has matured being able to get an AI drone with race pilot level flying into the hands of first responders is going to have massive impact in saving lives in dangerous situations

@frankgatt Жыл бұрын

Wow, great video.

@BMSThomas Жыл бұрын

Thanks :D

@TheTonstar1 Жыл бұрын

Great video 😊

@BMSThomas Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@changeagent228 Жыл бұрын

This is a great video. Solid state LIDAR could really help real-time navigation.

@mm-hl7gh Жыл бұрын

sure ? do you think they just totally forgot about that ?

@changeagent228 Жыл бұрын

@@mm-hl7gh It's bleeding edge so expensive to get modules small and light enough for drone use.

@Gazzar19 Жыл бұрын

Great work! besides racing i see big potential for "scripted" cinematic flights

@elonmax404 Жыл бұрын

This is SO cool

@travisSimon365 Жыл бұрын

One thing that struck me watching you and Alex fly from 3rd person is how wide your lines were while doing looping elements (conceding that you might not have been flying at 100%). When you watch the AI drone (when it works), the loops are super tight and compact. As a computer programmer and pilot, this was all very interesting. One thing that is very clear is that it might not be this year or even next year, but I'm pretty sure that in the near future you and Alex are going to get absolutely smoked by their machines. Scary stuff!

@SantiagoAG Жыл бұрын

Es impresionante la velocidad a la que vuelan esos drones y la habilidad de los pilotos es simplemente espectacular.

@ArcOfTheCovenant Жыл бұрын

I saw the other day what I can only describe as a flock of drones all flying in like a formation almost. They were not lit up or have lights really. But they looked to move together almost. Like 1 controlled them all sorta. Hard to explain. Super cool to see. Only lasted about 2 min they fly away fairly quickly. They've very small too. Maybe even smaller than ones in this video.

@No-bn2el Жыл бұрын

Suuuuper nice video

@imager09tube Жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@foolwise4703 Жыл бұрын

This is such a cool challenge, technically. We should have no illusions about the fact that the search and rescue use case is a niche scenario next to the military application as fast, hard to hit scout and assassin drones though. :-(

@propsoff Жыл бұрын

Very interesting and impressive...👍🏻🍻👊🏻

@igor_misic Жыл бұрын

11:07 Nice to see Orqa googles on Vanover :) Cheers from Osijek :)

@Jandodev Жыл бұрын

This is such cool tech!

@gator7763 Жыл бұрын

Great stuff Thomas! I missed you at IO. Hope to see you and your dad soon!

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊Same here, missed doing the AI, shame this was on the same time. Fingers crossed will be back in 2023

@BMSThomas Жыл бұрын

Thanks Gator! Fingers crossed we make it next year!

@sganzerlag Жыл бұрын

I would bet that the so-called "vision-only" drone in reality uses vision and gyro and accelerometer data, paired with a database containing the exact dimensions and geometry of that particular track. By using gyro and accelerometer data, the drone can calculate in real time exactly where it is in respect to its starting location. If it also knows the track's dimensions and geometry, it can combine that information to navigate the course. Inertial navigation. I don't think the vision drone is flying on video alone. Still, I am thoroughly impressed at how fast the ai drone was. Thank you so much for sharing this, I had a blast watching it. Best regards from Brasilia, Brazil.

@BigSQL Жыл бұрын

This video was money!!😍

@witblitsfpv1265 Жыл бұрын

Awesome...

@BOTGRINDER Жыл бұрын

so sick

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much man

@BMSThomas Жыл бұрын

Thanks dude!!

@DrChrisBiomed Жыл бұрын

Very cool and a great job by everyone in the team! Yet this is what the horror short film “Slaughterbots” warned us about... I don't think that this technology will only be used for "search and rescue"

@AbdulAleemShekhani Жыл бұрын

Oh DAMN! SKYNET LIVES! THE HORROR! That onboard vision drone is a thing of science fiction lore come to life.

@BMSThomas Жыл бұрын

It's pretty crazy how quickly tech is evolving hey? I wonder what the tech industry will look like in another year!

@flapjackfpv Жыл бұрын

The most mind blowing thing in FPV since FIRST DISCOVERING FPV PERIOD!!! 😱

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

They still have a long way to go, but it's one heck of a start

@flapjackfpv Жыл бұрын

@@BMSWEB Today you guys are absolute heroes but in a Skynet scenario you guys are going to be looked at as the absolute worst 😂 BMS Drone death swarms 😳 I couldn’t help but keep imagining that thing chasing me! I mean the thought is extremely brief but on the upside at least it’ll be quick 😂

@Kheine89 Жыл бұрын

Sick!

@rsutherland106 Жыл бұрын

great!

@oculicious Жыл бұрын

I feel like some future version of this tech could bring ghost-runs from velocitydrone into real life, like an FPV race AI trainer/opponent with different difficulty levels and both pro and famous profiles. You could even have a mode with a specific laptime that you wanna beat or a nemesis mode where it keeps getting faster and faster. That way you could get real life race training even when you don't have anyone to race.

@BMSWEB Жыл бұрын

Hi! We actually spoke to the guys about this! -Thomas

@oculicious Жыл бұрын

@@BMSWEB very cool!

@whatyoudo9773 Жыл бұрын

Love how excited and positive you kids are about creating attack drones that can chase down a human easily and avoid multiple obstacles....dont think about it just geek-out and enjoy freedom while you can.

@panobirds Жыл бұрын

exactly, maybe they need to look at an episode of black mirror. That's the whole issue with ...they only ask them self, can we do it...not should we be building this...

@whatyoudo9773 Жыл бұрын

@@panobirds correct, cyberdyne will be perfected by college kids, cause its cool