Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have published a paper with an automated flight system that allows the drone to complete a collision-free flight path with a 100% success rate. The MADER system, created in 2020, has been updated and allows devices to communicate and choose routes without collisions. To achieve 100% success, the researchers needed to slow down the drones a bit.

During the simulation, the drones have enough time to communicate and choose routes that avoid collisions between them, which does not happen in real tests. Kota Kondo, a graduate student in aeronautics and a member of the MIT team, says that the system, now called Robust MADER, needed an update to optimize communications between drones during live testing.. To get around the problem, drones take short breaks in flight and determine the safety of the chosen route.

In the article, the MADER system was described as “a multi-agent trajectory planner that allows a group of drones to form ideal trajectories without collision.” The system allows drones to share flight paths with each other, avoiding collisions with obstacles and other drones. In the article published on Arxiv, unfortunately, there is no indexing of videos with the Robust MADER system running.

Slower and safer flights

To get around collision problems in live tests, the researchers created an algorithm that delays the route selection process by a few moments. Thus, MIT drones have enough time to receive information from other drones and continue avoiding collisions. Although the researchers claim that the system can be improved, early results are already a good sign of the technology’s effectiveness.

Kondo says that despite the longer flight time (flying the programmed route), Reliable MADER ensured 100% safe flights. “If you want to fly safer, you have to be careful, so it makes sense that if you don’t want to hit an obstacle, it will take you longer to get to your destination,” Kondo told MIT News. “If you hit something, no matter how fast you drive, it really doesn’t matter because you won’t get to your destination.”

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