Dave visits the 2015 Vivid light festival in Sydney
The guys from Robotic Systems talk about the technical details of their custom Game Of Drones LIDAR based quadcopter drone system they developed for Intel for the Vivid festival:
http://www.roboticsystems.com.au/
Also, a look at the Intel Edison powered body sensing suit.
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All right I mean Martin played he said in 2003. Oh boy and stuff. let's go check it out and I'm here with Phil and he's got his Intel card. Yeah, we've got special VIP Actress Yeah! VIP Access to Intel Alright, let's check it out.

This is some sort of interactive wooden art thing. Edge: I Can actually see the yeah, you see the Kentucky so I'm making that sound. Go now. so it's pretty neat.

I Don't know who the artist is for that, but uh, yeah. I Rather like it and there's a few of you. and this vivid festival is actually all over the city. It in fact, you probably couldn't see it in one night.

There's so many different art installations and things like that. so we just come to Martin place. Intel I've got some drone and they're gonna fly some drones. They call it game of drones.

Yeah, go figure. Anyway, we've got pastors that apparently make sure that timer starts. Hopefully we haven't missed it. We'll get some footage, but yeah, there's tons of stuff.

There's dozens and dozens of art and white installations all over the city. Bruin If it's make the only get this sort of stuff. In no word, but no, someone was thinking I've got no idea what they're doing in there. Yeah yeah, stand here for a while and see that.

Installed a whole bunch of screens and there you go. It's called phase Frames and there's the artists Good Anja Collaborators and is inspired by the technology of 1920s celluloid film making and the workings of So Trope. Whoa, there you go. All the animation for those up animation nuts.

So there you go right. it is. all the animation stuff neat feels getting separate ography. watch out and they've actually yeah, turn the Martin place into a whole bunch of our food stalls and everything else.

This is normally just a big open thoroughfare, but yep, completely changed and they've got all graphics and everything fantastic. And I'm here with Mike Daly and he's from Intel and he's gonna tell us all about this drone. Hi guys, Hi Danny from Intel So this installation is called the Game of Drones. It's live at Sydney Vivid right now in Martin Place Now the idea behind this installation is to bring relevant so people understand who Intel are and what we're doing.

now. this installation is very submissive sophisticated. It's not just a case of throwing drones inside a cage, it's a case of these drones are actually being powered by Intel processors and we do that in two ways which Intel processor. So we've got one that's an Intel Atom processor and another one that's an Intel Core I7 processor.

Okay, I'll explain to you a bit more about how that works. On the left-hand side there where you see members of public over they are using a Microsoft Surface Pro with an active processor inside. Right now. that tablet when they move it to the left or to the right governs the flight path.

So that's an Intel powered tablet. As you can see, it's moving around here. now. What's very sophisticated about this installation is when there's a number of drones in here, we have a very high powered Intel Core I7 system tucked away in that command center in there is.
that system is constantly monitoring the location of each individual drone a number of different systems so they have infrared camera systems. They also have GPS systems on top of them as well. so they are at their basic formats. Their Parrot Drones Now you could buy a Parrot drone for three four hundred dollars.

However, these are bespoke After we finished making these modifications are about five thousand dollars each. Wow So these drones as you can see right now with Laura them running, they are constantly looking out for the public, tried to drive them into each other, and they simply can't do that. The whole installation is being monitored by an Intel Core I7 and the flight path is being controlled by atom processors. Got it? So the public is controlling them, but the Intel processor can step in and take over and say if they're going to crash together.

but it's constantly watching their location and that is that. Any part of the realsense technology they use, There's a good question. So funny. You should say that we do have some drones that are constructed with real sense on top of them.

Good news around, that is if we integrate real sense on top of drones. when a drone flies through let's say, a wooded forest, because real sense understands death. It can monitor the size and the shape of trees. and without these, without human intervention.

a drone can fly through trees if you wanted to because it sees the world in 3d. And that's all thanks to Intel Realsense technology. Before real sense came along, you weren't able to do that. So real sense is basically as correct with an infrared camera.

Yeah, infrared as well. so understand teeth and also works really well up at night as well. So in terms of a webcam, it's a really good nighttime cameras around. and I'm here in the game of drones.

Intel Realsense System with guys who developed it. This is Queen from Robotic Systems. Thanks for joining us! Who's gonna tell us all about it? Tell us so how this thing works. Okay, so basically we rather develop our own localization system for this application because we get very good GPS flying radios to wear boxing.

er, you can see the portrait on the side right down, basically answers and webs. It's like attaching a piece of string to each box right and then trying to go anywhere. and as long as it knows how long those pieces string up. Yep, we can then tell in 3-space buries what some of my power system in you're using one other technique, what frequencies One supposing if we see a post light line up wide online.

that basically is just shooting a laser incredible signal at the ground and whiten still comes back and the propagation delay will give us someone we gonna have multiple entry. Now we've got to interfere with each other and we can see them up in the air at the moment and they pretty much can't collide. Well that's the plan anyway. what sort of range would this system work out? How big the radio in the radio system work at about 300 meters right? the line I was in 427 leads to 40 meters.
Okay basically systems wants to get buck 40 meters which was using. We actually get X, Y&z coordinates back with your system. We find the accuracy on National Zoo's alarm so we sorry using state standard drones that you go off the shelf in your modified Er. Yeah yeah so these are just on the standard limited then house Frank running 2200 pay their motors with five white three inch props.

So the little Power Packs go for racing a burn battery pretty quick. good for about 1.2 kilos where the lives will. We're running the best seminary degree of so we're just above. Yeah, you're right.

Okay yeah, Southern Cotton, there's too much more Karla for now. Yeah, you've got to make a bot over there. I spy What are you pretty now? spare parts? basically. Yeah, at the moment we're putting the landing booties to go on so there's four days next row and we pretty much similar so we can talk about quicker.

Yeah! Fins for our Globalization system? yep and as well. so I can't stay on the bottom. They also hold a Px for flow see that's the finished assembly in the air and all tied back to a pixel which basically we use because we can communicate with it quite well without without ground station at least a protocol for a blink. which basically there's a ground station to control the map in year so that that's part of the lidar system.

Picking up the nodes are encoded that reflects off the ground. Yes, Why do you have never need any specific surface? No, it works on almost any surface. Almost any chef I said grass. Surya Garcia Yeah really hard base.

We see the this is very deal or either it's open source community that really developers stuff right they didn't build this appears for flow camera up to fly camera with an option Accenture on earth actually fee on that I Also, it was getting very bad information over a rough ground. Sure worthwhile. I gets a lot better done so that this whole system is basically used to control these drones. you know, you know and then we control them in the void within the Lord of mode setting our clock forward and backwards.

Philosophers to coddle. Basically yeah, you have, Our evolution works basically as we look for a meter bubble from around the drone. If you're not driving comes within that within inhibited. we give it a tablet tablets ability to set for her to adjust the set point we actually have I'll show you actually we had him going in XY To start with that, the more drones we were in, the less room we had together restrict them back so we lock that to Y and given Z And basically now they're setting a hold Z versus our hits settled XY and separations bar and are played over there like us into each other.
but for it's wonderful in Ares I made a buffer zone around. Oh right and I will actually pull up against each other. So where's the processing done? Is it done on the tablet or is it done on here? It is done. All the grants is still on the ground station.

so we're actually doing network control. So basically our grant station receives all the data from the communist. we priced this all, the daughter holding an advanced nation and we send it back out to the unit's targeting opponents I Said the daughter is sent back to you have tablets at the temple of these ones not actually control now. Translation controls it all.

basically the tablets they streamed items who asks whether to work or give warrant and then we process their commands as long as well as the commands or the right. Fantastic. Can you explain this? This is an intro system. sorry this is the ground station interface here.

So basically we can watch up to six aircraft and it looks like a bunch of lights and you know you need to display. But basically we're looking at the localization system so and always an out threshold on the track. Likewise, the weight of it like a status tablet status everything. Yeah.

Basically what happens is they say operate already I say go from one I am the aircraft and then the operator can do it unnecessarily and they get activated on Tumblr and basically that'll bring the aircraft off. Now they have said control and you're monitoring individual joy now. Pack voltage as well. They're back voltage frequency that were receiving control data so we can look at down commerce drops.

Okay so seven seven times the second is that long? Yeah yeah, it's nice and slow. Another nice long steady. We don't want to crowd out the the airspace. Then we're also watching the wrong pitch in your altitude.

You see he'll take off. You took off sideways. You had a bit of a bad takeoff, but the system will bring you back to where he needs to be. Got it? Yes.

A We're also looking at the altitude, what's coming out of the drone, and what is coming out of the end of our calculations for this explains in making sure that they don't drift too far behind. Come on it. And you wrote this specifically for this Intel event? Yes, yeah, this system was developed before the event. Tell how long to take it to the dot.

We developed it all in about a month. you know. working on we had over at there's three those two programmers working on. Oh yeah, they'll ring us up four weeks in advance and said can you do it We said yeah, we did it.

So it does actually flash and pulsate and I'm sure somebody made flashing There we go. And yet? Um yeah. there an AC electroluminescent our strip weekly and we're at the Intel Realsense booth here and this is their gesture tree. The gesture technology and as you can see people are are projecting.
It's interpreting those patterns convert into art and they're projecting that up on their experience. Very cool and skills up. it's checking it areas. they're just around the lungs here.

my job and as I breathe the air that comes in will light up the lights in a pattern given to help us. My breathing is Davi and it's the old audio and lead up staircase tree. Love the building projection but why can't they show back to the future I don't know now where it's circular Ke: there's the Harbour Bridge in the background. Surprisingly, they haven't lit up the Harbour Bridge in any way.

if they have lit up the Museum of Modern Art awesome, We're gonna check it out. And there's the Museum of Modern Art And this one is actually quite good because they sink that. They line up the lights and everything with the building itself. You can't see it at the moment, but they get some projections.

wear it like it turns into like a Rubik's Cube kind of thing and everything you know falls down with all the different shapes in the building and stuff like that. So I like I prefer these once to the just their projected ones. Which if we have a look over here, there is the Opera House the world famous opera house and they've got that all lit up as well. and it's not particularly bright from all the way back here.

I'm right across the other side of Circular Key here, so it's quite a big, quite a big gap, so you're getting a bit of noise there on the video. sorry about that. it's uh, someone doing backflips. Yeah, I Think they could have had better graphics on the hall.

There we go. What's that? It probably cycles through like 10 15 minutes. Something like that these things usually do. I Shot us several of these things in the city before, not as part of our vivid, but as part of our other things.

So there we go. that's quite nice. and as you can see, there's a quite a crowd here. Circular Keys are packed.

it's almost New Year's Eve like because Sydney is one of the premiere locations for New Year's Eve in the world has the best fireworks are the best New Year's Eve fireworks anywhere in the world, bar none. And I'm not just saying that cuz I'm a local. It's true, Everyone knows that people come from around the world here and this is yeah, it's almost as many people here and this is really quite quite something. I Like this, the Museum of Modern Art if you're ever in Sydney it is free.

just turn up here the circular key and here you go. You can see where they've actually synched up some of this with the building itself. so they've actually lined up the projectors - looks like the floors are of the parts of the building and moving in and out. Very very nice.

I Like that effect. It really works quite well. and also its circular key. Here they got circular key.
train station there. it is all lit up with the building we saw before as well. Awesome! And yes, that is a giant pig and we're at our house. We've got LED ropes and Work explores how individuals living together make unexpected connections across the boundaries that divide nature and technology clearly.

and here it is. Yeah, and it's got some funky music. Listen to that. Awesome! I'm gonna get my goose decoupler motormen hookup.

It's not very bright, so sorry about the quality of the footage. it's gotta gain it all up. So very noisy image. but there's the Opera House and Harbour Bridge.

And for those foreigners who don't know, the Harbour Bridge links Australia and New Zealand Over there you can see Luna Park over in New Zealand. Okay, yep, that's art. you.

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26 thoughts on “Eevblog #766 – vivid sydney 2015 light festival”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars dtiydr says:

    "Harbour bridge link Austraila to New Zeeland"Im quite sure you mean the mainland then since that would need a bridge of about 1300 miles. 🙂

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars The Cat Man says:

    This post sponsored by Intel Core i7.

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ccs4646 says:

    Did anyone catch that Intel Girl's Name?

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars kris schirmer - designer + artist says:

    WONDERFUL ! BREATHTAKING! VERY INSPIRING! LOVE IT! GRANDIOSE! 😉 KRIS

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jeremy O says:

    the video projection on the buildings is always really awesome, i wish that would happen all the time to all buildings

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars skog mose says:

    say intel one more fucking time, I dare you, I double dare you

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars jasonwarbird says:

    That's really cool!

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars hectorbacchus says:

    Thumbs up for the tron girl!

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars joob says:

    I had an autonomous drone flying through a forest before there was realsense. Deal with it, intel…

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Flying Karapet says:

    60fps

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars 666Tomato666 says:

    Syndey Harbour Bridge links Australia with New Zealand?

    I always thought that it's more famous for the rare city dwelling dropbears…

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Toby_TW says:

    Remind me what the drones are powered by again? On right yeah, an Intel core i7.

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Gordon Freeman says:

    Could you imagine if we could bring someone from the 16th century and show them this xD.

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Toni Lähdekorpi says:

    That Intel guy was full of marking bullshit.

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars GuyBlondWithOutGod says:

    There's got to be some wise guy with a lap top trying to hack the Intel Installation….  imagine the carnage!

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Lakes57 says:

    And todays EEVBlog was sponsored by… just kidding Dave! 😀

    Remember that old viral badger badger animation?, replace it that guy saying, intel intel intel. 🙂

  17. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars renxula says:

    The opera house showed up just fine in the video. But their video ran at a terribly low fps. What is that, 15 fps? Same with the Intel 3D camera projection thing, though that was even slower, maybe 10 fps. The MOMA one was much better, maybe even 50ish, though with that content it was hard to say for sure.

  18. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars lean04 says:

    dave, do you know how to fix the dropped frames on youtube? I can't watch your videos at 1080p@50fps

  19. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Tony T. says:

    Great video, very inspiring and interesting! Thanks!

  20. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars gamccoy says:

    Your camera performed quite well.  The video was quite good.   Let me also say your city is gorgeous and everyone seemed quite well-behaved.

  21. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Morgan says:

    Anybody else note the irony of running EL panels (which are AC powered) with an Edison?

  22. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Centi Zen says:

    Wow Intel is really desperate to stay relevant in the embedded market

  23. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Yago says:

    Surely, all those light sculptures, Mike had something over-there?

  24. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Steve Layland says:

    World-class city you've got there, Dave. Awakens yearnings.  

    Commonly, here in the States, each capital is a relatively minor city, while commerce, pop culture and other interests are centered in larger cities. Usually, there's some sort of state-based "rivalry" working between the two. Few of these cities are world-class.  

    How does it stand between Sydney and Melbourne?

  25. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Blackbeardjack99 says:

    Best setting for an acid-trip👌 i swear

  26. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Hola! Matthew Suffidy says:

    The drone thing really just slows down drones when they get too close. Would be more impressive to do like a controlled crossover if both persons wanted to pass eachother. Don't know of the real cpu requirement for that setup , but it doesn't seem to much. going by things like trees with moving branches would be more difficult than static 3d.

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