{"id":10801,"date":"2018-07-21T06:28:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T06:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vr-room.ch\/?p=10801"},"modified":"2018-07-18T10:45:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T10:45:05","slug":"drohnen-mit-dem-koerper-steuern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-room.ch\/en\/2018\/07\/21\/drohnen-mit-dem-koerper-steuern\/","title":{"rendered":"Controlling drones with the body"},"content":{"rendered":"

Instead of using a joystick, researchers at EPF Lausanne now control drones with their upper body. This is more intuitive and precise and gives the pilot the feeling of flying like a bird.<\/h3>\n
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„Unser Ziel war es, eine Steuerung zu entwickeln, die leicht zu erlernen ist und die von Benutzern weniger Konzentration fordert“, erkl\u00e4rt die\u00a0Neuroingenieurin Jenifer Miehlbradt in einer Mitteilung der ETH Lausanne (EPFL). Heraus kam eine L\u00f6sung, bei der die Piloten die Drohne intuitiv mit ihrem Oberk\u00f6rper steuern k\u00f6nnen.<\/p>\n

The range of applications is huge, from flight simulators to flying drones and perhaps even aircraft of the future.<\/p>\n

The research group developed the control system by studying the body movements of people and deducing the movement patterns. To do this, they placed 19 markers on the upper body of the test subjects. The test subjects then had to follow the movements of a virtual drone using virtual reality goggles. It turned out that four markers on the pilots' upper bodies were enough to steer a virtual or a real drone through an obstacle course.<\/p>\n

Upper body control was superior to conventional control via a joystick in terms of precision. In contrast, joysticks may be simpler in design, but they are much more challenging to use. Pilots required only minimal training for the innovative control system, as the ETH writes.<\/p>\n