IEEE Spectrum, is the world’s largest professional organisation devoted to engineering and the applied sciences. It contains peer-reviewed feature articles pertaining to technology and science trends affecting business and society. This spectrum was conducted to enlighten the young minds and some skillful knowledge out of it. The speaker Ms. J. Jasmine spoke on “AI-powered drone learns extreme acrobatics ”. The speaker enlightened us with the idea that “ Researchers from the Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, in collaboration with Intel, have developed a neural network training method that enables an autonomous quadrotor to fly extreme acrobatic maneuvers with only onboard sensing and computation. The quadrotor can perform maneuvers that are challenging even for the best human pilot, without any kind of external camera or motion-tracking system to help it out. The AI training is done in simulation, without the need for an additional simulation-to-real-world transfer step. The simulation environment that the researchers used was Gazebo, slightly modified to better simulate quadrotor physics. The quadrotor was trained to perform three acrobatic maneuvers plus a combo of all of them: Power Loop, Barrel Roll, and Matty Flip.” The participants had an amazing experience in the meet and enjoyed the entire session.
