Flight Goggles: MIT’s VR Training System For Safe Drone Flights

Drones are being used by civilians and the military to get access of the areas out of the human reach and commercial drones are used for photography, research and racing. Drones are serving various sectors and being deployed for delivery, search and rescue, mapping and inspection, crops monitoring and many more.

With the growth in drones arises the need of maintenance and safe flight. For this reason MIT comes in with a VR training system named ‘Flight Goggles.’ “We think this is a game-changer in the development of drone technology, for drones that go fast, and if anything, the system can make autonomous vehicles more responsive, faster, and more efficient,” says MIT’s Associate Professor Sertac Karaman.

“The moment you want to do high-throughput computing and go fast, even the slightest changes you make to its environment will cause the drones to crash,” said Karaman.

“The drone will be flying in an ‘empty room’, but will be hallucinating a completely different environment, and will learn in that environment,” explains Karaman.

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