Autonomous Helicopters Teach Themselves to Fly Stunts

[happinesson]

This needs a lot of skills to maneuver this stuff in the air.

[thegreeensky]

wow! that was amazing.. nice acrobats!

[adelle0001]

nice one!

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[RomanticLinguaphilia]

neat stuff :-)

[backinthehole]

There was something similar to this in the racing game Forza. You would drive and the program would take how you did things then use your strengths and weaknesses to drive the car in a race. Its not exactly the same as what the people at Stanford did, but about as close as I've seen firsthand.

[jacksawild]

What kind of learning? What are the inputs? The ranges? Memory footprint? Is this done with HTMs?.... we've had computers controlling aircraft for years.

[jkgambz]

@jacksawild he said it, apprenticeship learning : ai . stanford . edu / ~ pabbeel / / thesis / thesis . pdf

[playaspec]

If they would only open source their code....

[uniqueuserrname]

I read their paper and also spent the last year learning to fly RC helicopters. 1) it's EXEEDINGLY difficult to even FLY the flipping thing, 2) the computer learns it in 11 goes. Also - it can only "clean up" what the human did - so cannot find the 'perfect' trick - only an improvement on what the human did. Awesome. This RC heli could hover upside down for as long as the electricity and petrol lasted. I would have passed out from concentration. 5 minute flights are the limit for me !

[stroodle11]

@uniqueuserrname I can imagine. And it's exceedingly difficult in calm conditions. Imagine windy conditions. It could be impossible for a human to do stunts like this in windy conditions without computer-control.

I imagine stuff like this would be useful for helicopter rescue-missions during rough-weather which would otherwise be too dangerous to attempt.

[d3adp001]

It copies and pastes the perimeters into its program, and then cleans them up a bit.

[learningtobefree1]

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[YatesyMU]

Thank you... SOMEBODY else here watches movies. You made just about the same comment I was about to make.

[bormisha]

Incredible stunts!

[helianimal]

Not that impressive actually. Watch some other videos of top pilots.

[SatiricalSatire]

It's not that the stunts are incredibly impressive themselves. The helicopters are doing them autonomously (ie no one is controlling them).

[helianimal]

Yes that's impressive. I was just replying your can see some sick 3d from a capable pilot

[airbender0203]

Just an excuse to fly r/c helis! BRILLIANT! I'm SO jealous! I wish I had a grant to pay for mine!

[jujututu]

one thing you guys failed to mention is your having a butt load of FUNNN!!!!!

[chujam77]

And how much is the goverment grant for this research? What a study! You get to wreck heli's, and then take money out of the grant to repair!!! How do I get on board with this study?

[bormisha]

Want to join the project? If you can program realtime flight control software, then perhaps you should apply for a post-graduate study. The procedures are published on the University websites.

[xenosoldier]

Imagine if all this ingenuity went into restructuring the US power grid, or the IT infrastructure of hospitals and corporations.

[francisfaustino]

what people fail to realize is what ever is learned in researches like these will eventually trickle down to something more useful... most likely, it may not even have anything to do with RC's whatsoever...

much of the technology that you enjoy today and keep up your standards of living have started in something completely unrelated and seemingly as useless as this computer controlled heli...

[luddite333]

How soon until they are outfitted with guns? How soon until the ones with guns malfunction?

[DigtBrain2]

... maybe it will learn this from it's human controlled counterparts ;)

[desposyy]

about three months after the military find out the research exsistes

[helianimal]

They already are. They have paintball gun missions with autonomous RC Helicopters.

[Clivesvlogs]

What does Andrew Ng say @ 1:01?

"type of AI algorithm a card-isha-burley"

[TOTAhruman]

a type of AI algorithm type of artificial intelligence algorithm called apprenticeship learning.

[Clivesvlogs]

apprenticeship learning, yes. @ 1:01 he's say something like "cardishaburly"...I searched all his papers, can find?

[yamasubaruger]

Maybe! you dont know what your computer is doing while you not home.

[robertlam18]

So was the red helicopter flew by human or their program?

[chromophore]

Andrew Ng is an extremely cool prof!

[tronjon1551]

they will take over the world!!!!!!!!!!!!

[UnconcernedCitizen]

I am bored and this video did not help.

[caracalla212]

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Great job from Paris France.

[monaghandavid]

This type of learning should be used for the vehicles in the DARPA challenge or later autonomous vehicles.

[drummerboy827]

This is completely different. In this case, they have written a program to mimic maneuvers done by a heli flown by a pro. Not too difficult to do given they know the inputs the pilot gave and how the heli reacted. It's just a matter of converging on a solution that produces the same results.

The DARPA challenge requires the cars to make decisions based on their surroundings and a destination. My favorite is they have to know the 'cue' of cars at a 4-way stop sign, and react accordingly.

[XxnesiexX]

i'm going to work fot standford if thats what you do all day

[chemicalBR0]

pretty cool but it should be titled

"humans teach helicopters to fly stunts without a transmitter" its not inventing the moves it is recording stick inputs from a human pilot (essentially he is programming it to copy what he does)

will it invent a chaos if you don't show it how to do it 1st.

can it combine moves to make new moves without being shown I.E if you show it a regular tail down tic toc can it then combine it with a piro to do 4 point tic tocs.

still pretty impressive for what it is.

[osgeek]

It's more than just playing back a recording. It's imitating the moves and even improving on them. Big difference. This kind of thing is a big step forward.

[krbosak]

chemical, this is a general discussion on what AI and neurals can do. My point and probably your is that they can interpolate smoothly nonlinear multidimensional data with best quality. But most ppl claim this can provide reliable extrapolations towards new maneuvers. I agree, but those extrapolations are in rpactice so close to tested soutions that it will be hard to call those as new maneuvers. Certainly their helico will make really beautiful rolls.

[johnson4u]

One more cool demo of what AI can do. Hats off to you folks!

[economistBR]

Amazing stuff, but what decides which stunts will be performed?

Are you guys planing on making it self aware?

[hprof1]

Hello Andrew Ng.

[batteekha]

u can buy that for 5 bucks at toys stores

[zumosoren]

no you cant

[trxspirit]

times that by 500 and you get an average of how much one costs all ready to fly

[Chilldogg]

That's amazing!