Skydio 2 Autonomous Drone Searching For Escaped Alligators

Skydio 2 Autonomous Drone Searching For Escaped Alligators

Today we’re using the skydio2 drone to look for escaped gators from a local gator farm.

https://www.skydio.com/skydio-2
From the website:
MAIN PROCESSOR: NVIDIA Tegra X2 SOC
GPU: 256-core NVIDIA Pascal GPU
CPU: Dual-Core NVIDIA Denver 2 64-bit CPU, Quad-Core ARM®-A57 MPCore
RAM: 4GB 128-bit LPDDR4
OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE COVERAGE: Omnidirectional above/below, Super fisheye lenses for 360 view.
3D WORLD MODEL UPDATE RATE: 1 million points per second.
WORLD MODEL-TO-ACTION UPDATE RATE: 500 iterations per second.
ONBOARD AI: 9 custom deep networks used in flight.
USER-SELECTABLE SUBJECTS FOR TRACKING: People and motor vehicles.
OBJECT TRACKING AND IDENTIFICATION: Up to 10 simultaneous objects of interest.
CALIBRATION: Automated online calibration of lens parameters, camera rotations, wind speed, and air density.
CINEMATIC SKILLS: Motion Track (relative to subject motion), Fixed Track (relative to absolute orientation), One Shots (dronie, rocket, boomerang, and vortex), Cable cam (single pass, looping, or track).

Music: Code Blue
By Jason Shaw
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