Testing out my new toy

[Ming the Merciless]

See - I should have stayed working in IT

First rule, understand your audience. Jargon does not impress, and is just seen as gobbledegook. In plain english for Cyclechat audience, how does it avoid trees? Not how was it developed.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

it is just saying it works out how to avoid everything using a computer chip and some sensors

But my phone has computer chips and sensors. If I throw it at a tree, it won’t avoid it, unless my aim is off. How specifically does it work?

 

[fossyant]

It flies well, I can see why they are an issue for pesky Russians.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

But my phone has computer chips and sensors. If I throw it at a tree, it won’t avoid it, unless my aim is off. How specifically does it work?

I explained above - can;t be much clearer

(basically it has a computer and some sensors and someone has written a program that does it
Other than that I have no idea!)

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Other than that I have no idea!

A kind of magic then!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

wasn;t there someone who said that any sufficiently advanced technology become indistinguishable from magic??

 

[numbnuts]

wasn;t there someone who said that any sufficiently advanced technology become indistinguishable from magic??

This famous quote was written by the British science-fiction author and futurist Arthur C. Clarke. It is known as "Clarke's Third Law" and first appeared in his 1962 book, Profiles of the Future. [1, 2]

 

[Dadam]

First rule, understand your audience. Jargon does not impress, and is just seen as gobbledegook. In plain english for Cyclechat audience, how does it avoid trees? Not how was it developed.

https://support.dji.com/help/conten...ng=en&documentType=artical&paperDocType=paper

From that page:

Applicable products	Downward Vision System	Forward Vision System	Backward Vision System	Left Vision System	Right Vision System	Upward Vision System	Whether manual enabling/disabling is supported
DJI Neo 2	Single vision system+ Infrared sensing system	Single vision system + Forward-facing LiDAR	Single vision system	Single vision system	Single vision system	Single vision system	Yes

The LiDAR is be able to measure the distance to objects in real time. The single vision system will use algorithms to detect moving shapes, first detecting shapes, then by comparing frames. If a tree trunk shape is getting larger it is getting closer. It will be able combine the LIDAR depth info with the visual image frames.

It's likely AI has been used in developing the algorithms offline and I would assume some AI models are also being used onboard the drone but these will be proprietary, small lightweight fast models for shape sensing and trajectory prediction as opposed to Large Language Models (LLM). An obstacle avoidance system doesn't need to know the complete works of Dostoevsky!