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23 May 2023
This article is an introduction to <a href="https://www.mepsking.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MEPS</a>, which is a group of professional and passionate engineers, designers, FPV enthusiasts, product testers and marketing personnel. MEPS' new power system space series&mdash;which is mainly used in the field of FPV&mdash;is a series of motors with greatly optimized design, power, and durability. The <a href="https://www.mepsking.com/sz2306-fpv-brushless-motor-for-5inch-freestyle-drone.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FPV Brushless SZ2306</a> motor, for example, is super lightweight and stronger and more durable than most FPV motors in its weight class.
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<h5>Features &nbsp;of &nbsp;the &nbsp;SZ2306 </h5>
Freestyle Specialist. Provides ample power and stability for fast-paced flying, making it an ideal choice for those who want to push freestyle flying to the next level. Quick acceleration. Rapid response. High efficiency.
Innovative Design. Remarkable durability with a uni-bell covering&mdash;and super-low cogging torque&mdash;achieves the perfect combination of performance and aesthetics.
Better Material. 6082 aluminum alloy and N52SH arc magnets increase efficiency and shorten motor response time, allowing the motor to run as smooth as silk.
Individual Pre-factory Test. Ensures quality and reliability. Super-dynamic balance control provides a smooth and responsive flying experience.
Three KV Options (1750, 1950, 2450). Different KVs match different batteries and propellers for different flying styles.
Efficient FPV Freestyle Experience. Racers can easily operate any style, such as barrel rolls, gaps, and backwards dives.&nbsp;
Matching Recommendation. Model SZ2306 is suitable for the 5-Inch quadcopter. We strongly recommend racers combine this drone motor with high-quality 35A AIO brushless FC and 5-Inch props.
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<h5>SZ2306 Basic Parameters</h5>
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<h5>SZ2306 Size</h5>
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<h5>Specs</h5>
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MEPS FPV Brushless Motor 

FPV Drones

Recently, we ran a story on the University of Zurich's Robotics and Perception Group, and how its AI drones pretty much smoked human FPV champions in a race. <a href="https://www.thedroningcompany.com/blog/autonomous-drones-threaten-the-end-of-human-fpv-racers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">You can read the original story here</a>.
Now, thanks to this article about the host Tattu pilot team of world champs Thomas Bitmatta (2018 MultiGP International Open World Champion), Alex Vanover (2019 DRL World Champion), and Marvin Sch&auml;pper (Swiss Drone League Champion), we have an even deeper dive into what happened when humans battled AI at the University of Zurich this past June.
<h5>WATCH!</h5>
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<h5>&ldquo;A Single Lap of 5.112s, Repeated Three Times, Is Beyond Human Reach&rdquo;</h5>
Flying First Person View (FPV) is one of the largest difficulties of operating in a race. The pilot can only get the first view through the FPV glasses and manually operate the flight. Operational stability is low, and the pilot can only see the state of high-speed movement, so a test pilot's ability to adapt to situations is essential.
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In this experimental race, with a week to go before the showdown, the three champion pilots came to the event location in advance, constantly training to familiarize themselves with the course, as well as working with the lab to collect data on eye movements and more. Meanwhile, the test track and drones were specially made for the AI system, as AI Drone has 36 cameras and sensors&mdash;all to allow the AI to accurately figure out the best route to get the fastest overall finish time.
&ldquo;I think on one lap, a human can be faster, but on three or more laps, the AI will win," said Sch&auml;pper. "For example, an AI drone can do a 5.112s lap time three times behind each other cause they can just repeat one lap. But a lap time of 5.112s and three repetitions is unachievable by humans. On the track we were using, Thomas got down to 6.26s using the Tattu 4.0 battery, but he managed a 6.066s run using the Tattu R-Line 5.0!"&nbsp;
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The human pilots constantly adjusted their strategies and upgraded their equipment to get faster times.&nbsp;
On June 11, the showdown between AI Drone and the world champions was played out at Swiss Drone Days.
The first round started in the morning, with pilots racing one-on-one with AI Drone in multiple attempts to challenge the fastest lap times.
After several rounds of racing, Vanover's fastest lap time was 6.7s, Bitmatta's was 6.3s and Sch&auml;pper scored 5.6s. AI Drone's fastest time in three rounds was only 5.1s. However, during the duel with Vanover, AI Drone had a glitch, hit the gate, and fell down. Vanover had figured out a way to get his drone to stay in the middle of the traversing gate, but the AI Drone's sensors detected an obstacle and couldn't get through. So, the drone flew in the other direction, and caused a crash.
In the race course, the possibility of FPV collisions are high, as the pilots adjust speed and attitude to bypass obstacles and no-fly zones. In AI drones, navigation, guidance, and control are completed through artificial intelligence flight control.
The second round unfolded in the afternoon, which was an image recognition session where both the pilot and AI Drone could adjust the FPV's battery, motor, and propeller for better results.
This time, AI changed the machine, removing the 36 sensing cameras covered in the body and instead installing one camera in the head of the drone, which is equivalent to replacing 36 brains with one brain. The results of this round changed, Vanover and Bitmatta were 5.6s, Sch&auml;pper hit 5.44s, and AI Drone, affected by the light recognition, managed only 5.6s. Sch&auml;pper finally surpassed AI Drone in this round!
During the competition, the AI constantly adjusted its algorithm by observing the pilot's flight path and eye reaction. Tattu's pilot only beat AI Drone in one score&mdash;glory to defeat!
All in all, AI intelligence eventually outperformed humans, but the machine still has limitations, and as technology advances and conditions allow, machine replacement for humans has become possible.
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Above: Pilots and team members.
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Behind the Scenes: Tattu Race Champions Beaten by AI Drones

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FPV drone-racing pilots...
Well, your days may be numbered.
You had a good run, of course. You've honored yourself in a sport where human pilots must navigate complex courses with speed and precision&mdash;all while relying solely on a video feed sent from a camera on the front of the drone to the pilot&rsquo;s VR headset. Bravo.
But it's probably time to retire. Take up extreme snowboarding, perhaps?
You see, a year ago, autonomous racing quadrotors from Davide Scaramuzza&rsquo;s <a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robotics and Perception Group</a> at the University of Zurich (UZH) <a href="https://www.media.uzh.ch/en/Press-Releases/2021/Drone-Race.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proved they could beat the world's fastest humans in a drone race</a>. Losing that race didn't do you in, however, as the autonomous racing drones relied on a motion-capture system to provide high-resolution position information in real time (along with a computer sending control information). Lucky for you that this wasn't a fair fight...
But why?
An autonomous drone has several advantages over humans in such a race. First, it has near-perfect state estimation&mdash;thanks to a motion-capture system that covers the entire course. In other words, the drone always knows exactly where it is, as well as its precise speed and orientation. Experienced human pilots develop an intuition for estimating the state of their system, but they can&rsquo;t watch their own drone while racing because they&rsquo;re immersed in first-person view the entire time.
The second advantage the autonomous drone has is that it&rsquo;s able to compute a trajectory that traverses the course in a time-optimal way, considering the course layout and the constraints imposed by the drone itself. Human pilots have to practice on a course for hours (or even days) to discover what they think is an optimal trajectory, but they have no way of knowing for sure whether their racing lines can be improved or not.
<h5>SEE A UZH DRONE WITH A MOTION-CAPTURE SYSTEM AND OFF-BOARD COMPUTATION&nbsp;</h5>
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<h5>A FAIR REMATCH</h5>
So, earlier this month, a trio of champion drone racers traveled to Zurich for a rematch. This time, the autonomous drones were denied a motion-capture system&mdash;nothing was off-board. It would be simply drones and humans using their own vision systems and their own computers (or brains) to fly around a drone racing track as fast as possible.
What made this rematch a more equal competition where humans and robots could compete fairly, but doesn&rsquo;t ask the robots to be less robotic or the humans to be less human-y?
No external help.&nbsp;No motion-capture system or off-board compute. Arguably, the humans have something of an advantage here, as they are off-board by definition, but the broader point of this research is to endow drones with the ability to fly themselves in aggressive and agile ways, so it&rsquo;s a necessary compromise.
Complete knowledge of the course.&nbsp;Nothing on the course is secret, and humans can walk through it and develop a mental model. The robotic system, meanwhile, gets an actual CAD model. Both humans and robots also get practice time&mdash;humans on the physical course with real drones, and the system practices in simulation. Both humans and robots can use this practice time to find an optimal trajectory in advance.
Vision only.&nbsp;The autonomous drones use Intel RealSense stereo-vision sensors, while the humans use a monocular camera streaming video from the drone. The humans may not get a stereo feed, but they do get better resolution and higher frames per second than the RealSense gives the autonomous drone.
<h5>READY. SET...</h5>
Three world-class human pilots were invited to Zurich for the rematch. Thomas Bitmattaup (two-time winner of FRV racing's MultiGP International World Cup), Alex Vanover (2019 Drone Racing League champion), and Marvin Sch&auml;pper (2021 Swiss Drone League champion). Each pilot had as much time as they wanted on the course in advance, flying more than 700 practice laps in total.
On a Friday night in a military aircraft hangar outside of Zurich, the races began.&nbsp;
<h5>FAIR FIGHT: WATCH THE BLUE AUTONOMOUS DRONE BEAT THE RED HUMAN-PILOTED DRONE</h5>
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With a top speed of close to 50 mph, the vision-based autonomous drone outraced the fastest human by 0.5 second during a three-lap race&mdash;where just one or two-tenths of a second is frequently the difference between a win and a loss.
This victory for the vision-based autonomous drone is a big deal, so human pilots beware...
<blockquote>"This demonstrates that AI-vs.-human drone racing has the potential to revolutionize drone racing as a sport," said Scaramuzza. "What&rsquo;s clear is that superhuman performance with AI drones can be achieved, but there is still a lot of work to be done to robustify these AI systems to bring them from a controlled environment to real-world applications."</blockquote>
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Autonomous Drones Threaten the End of Human FPV Racers

Tiny FPV drones, flown by pilots using a headset for maximum flight control, can capture truly thrilling "racing" footage or other fast, furious, and astounding aerial videos. But FPV drones typically need to be light and nimble, which means conventional-sized drones are not optimum. In addition, pilots who seek to further lighten the load have jury-rigged stripped-down cameras to their drones.
It's somewhat reminiscent of the hot-rod era, where mechanically savvy WWII veterans returned home, and looking for something to do, started taking apart old roadsters, transforming them into mean street machines.
The Do-It-Yourself (DIY) brigade of drone pilots has not gone unnoticed by GoPro.
The company's new Hero 10 Black Bones [$499 or $399 with a one-year GoPro subscription] is super bare bones, and it's perfect for FPV flyers&mdash;if you have some skills to adapt the "naked" GoPro to your rig.
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<h5>WHAT'S MIA?</h5>
The Hero 10 Black Bones doesn't have a battery, a display, a speaker, a metal chassis, or GPS and it's not waterproof. The lightweight casing offers some protection against crash damage, but don't expect the Bones to survive an epic smash up.
<h5>WHAT ARE THE "PROS?"</h5>
The biggest advantage of jettisoning practically all of the features of a standard GoPro is that the Bones weighs in at just 54 grams, making it an awesome passenger for FPV drones with 3-inch, or even 2.5-inch, propellers. The Bones also has new vents and a heatsink that offer cooling while the camera is shooting.
<h5>PREP&nbsp;</h5>
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To get the Bones mounted and working requires using the supplied socket on the back of the camera to connect to a battery using a GH 1.25 3-pin connector. The input voltage you need is 5V to 27V, which can be delivered by just about every LiPo battery pilots current use on FPV drones. You can use a standard GoPro mount adapter or a single-screw boss to get the device onto your drone. Getting the most out of the bare-bone Bones necessitates using some apps, and you can control the camera directly from your drone's controller (again, as long as you have some wiring and/or soldering chops).&nbsp;
<h5>WHY?</h5>
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Offering a seriously stripped-down anything&mdash;much less an add-on drone camera&mdash;is usually not an awesome business plan for those looking to impact the public market. But GoPro is committing to niche markets&mdash;and may continue to do so&mdash;as well as studying the behaviors of its customers. The company realized many of its cameras were already being cut to pieces&mdash;removing unneeded components and voiding warranties in the process&mdash;by FPV pilots looking to lower weight and maximize flight time. GoPro decided it could do a better job for these types of users if they did the slash and burn themselves.
&ldquo;You&rsquo;ve seen the rise of videos like flying into the bowling alley&mdash;or even the latest Tesla Gigafactory video&mdash;and those are all done by people who took the time to try to make a GoPro lighter,&rdquo; GoPro's Pablo Lema reported to <a style="color: #ba372a;" href="https://www.theverge.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">theverge.com. </a>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re pretty uniquely positioned to attack unique verticals in image capture that other companies frankly don&rsquo;t or wouldn&rsquo;t have the appetite or tech to be able to. We also know the customers for a Hero 10 Black Bones aren't going to shy away from a soldering station. Attaching motors and control circuitry is how they build their drones to begin with."
<h5>WATCH OSCAR LIANG HERO 10 BLACK BONES AERIAL TEST</h5>
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<li class="paragraph paragraph-small">Control with onboard buttons, Quik app, The Remote&sup2; or drone transmitter</li>
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New "Naked" GoPro Hero10 Black Bones Made for DIY FPV Pilots

An extremely talented&mdash;though unidentified&mdash;drone pilot recently captured some stunning footage at Telsa's Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg in Germany. The FPV drone buzzes through machinery in action producing the Model Y model&mdash;just watch how the pilot maneuvers the drone through the stamping presses as they fashion hoods, doors, and other parts. Besides the skill of this pilot, the daredevil acrobatics were made possible by an immersive headset that monitored the drone's live-stream camera feed.&nbsp;
SEE IT!
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Just opened last week, the <a href="https://www.tesla.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tesla</a> Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg is located in Berlin, and the vast space is estimated to produce up to 500,000 autos and millions of battery cells annually.&nbsp;
Aspire to be just as skilled as the Gigafactory pilot? Check out The Droning Company links below...
<a href="https://www.thedroningcompany.com/blog/how-to-become-a-drone-pilot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.thedroningcompany.com/blog/how-to-become-a-drone-pilot</a>
<a href="https://www.thedroningcompany.com/blog/how-to-become-a-commercial-drone-pilot-step-by-step" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.thedroningcompany.com/blog/how-to-become-a-commercial-drone-pilot-step-by-step</a>
<a href="https://www.thedroningcompany.com/blog/how-to-find-a-drone-job" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.thedroningcompany.com/blog/how-to-find-a-drone-job</a>
<a href="https://www.thedroningcompany.com/blog/pass-the-faa-part-107-commercial-drone-pilot-test-" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.thedroningcompany.com/blog/pass-the-faa-part-107-commercial-drone-pilot-test-</a>
<a href="https://www.thedroningcompany.com/blog/7-steps-to-become-a-certified-drone-pilot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.thedroningcompany.com/blog/7-steps-to-become-a-certified-drone-pilot</a>

Unnamed Pilot Takes Spectacular Flight Through Telsa Gigafactory in Berlin-Brandenburg

Drone Racing Video

Video Reel of the Week

The 2022 Drone Racing League World Championship took over the airspace in front of T-Mobile Arena during the January 7-10 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas round was the finale of the DRL World Championship Season, and was run on an outdoor course along the Las Vegas Strip, with the speeds of the drones reaching up to 100 mph through large obstacles.
WATCH!
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Drone Racing at 100 MPH During the 2022 DRL World Championship in Las Vegas

Drone Jobs

What's better than watching an awesome drive by <a href="http://www.rorymcilroy.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rory McIlroy</a>?
Having that shot followed by a drone.
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<a href="https://www.pgatour.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The PGA Tour</a> will use drones to follow golf shots at the Genisis Invitational tournament on February 17-20, and fans want more, more, and more!
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A Drone riding a mountain bike? Who could have anticipated this ten years ago&hellip; or ever?
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In an incredible video shot by Matt Weldon, he shows that drones too can shred trails just as well as other mountain bikers. Weldon states &ldquo;It felt pretty crazy to be flying in the air and feel this little helicopter buzzing by your head&rdquo;.&nbsp;
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This 2 minute and 32-second video displays three successful mountain biking runs until one of the rider&rsquo;s tires got knocked out of air. You can truly feel the dirt and the pure adrenaline rushing through the riders as you watch this clip.&nbsp;
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Our community of drone users is the only one capable of capturing raw footage such as this. Never before has there been a chance to obtain a first-person point-of-view while riding a mountain bike. Drones and people like you are making it possible to get dirty and experience these incredible feats that many can only dream of.&nbsp;

Drone Rides Mountain Bike Better Than Professional

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Over three weeks in 2022, North America's <a href="https://www.naturalselectiontour.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Natural Selection Tour</a> features competitive freeriding at three different, wide-open and natural large-terrain venues. Unfortunately, the massive size of the venues makes conventional broadcast techniques&mdash;such as static cameras, follow-riders armed with Go-Pros, and cameras on pre-rigged cable systems&mdash;less than up to the task of capturing the true excitement of the events.
But 39-year-old <a href="https://www.instagram.com/travisrice/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Travis Rice</a>&mdash;one of the most influential snowboarders of the past two decades&mdash;devised a way to capture the drama of the National Selection Tour's scenery, runs, and riders with a visceral, cinematic intensity.
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All it took was stealing a few licks from the video-gaming world and ultizing high-speed racing drones.
"Over the years of trial-and-error with filmmaking, we realized pretty early on that the nature of this event&mdash;and how large and complicated the event venues are&mdash;meant it had to be captured in a special way," said Rice, who has worked on more than 20 snowboarding films. "I wanted to deliver an immersive experience. For example, people are used to looking at that third-person shooter angle in video games, so I feel like providing a familiar way of experiencing and watching something reduces a barrier to entry."
To achieve the desired thrills, Rice's cinematography team uses custom, high-speed racing drones&mdash;reportedly the first time this level of technology has been used in live broadcast.
THE DRONES
Gabriel Kocher&mdash;a Swiss aerial cinematographer who is also a professional drone racer&mdash;helped come up with the gear to make it all happen. Kocher created a system on an X8 drone platform with eight motors, a customized gimbal, a full broadcast system, and stabilization features. The system delivers extreme agility and speeds of up to 100 miles per hour.
It's also more than the average drone pilot/cameraperson can typically handle.
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<div class="el__video--standard js__video--standard" data-autoplay="false">"It requires an athlete's performance to capture the athlete's performance," says Kocher, who used his seven years of drone-racing experience to capture the right footage. "When a rider is just going smooth, I'm trying to tap into my cinematography background, but if they are gunning through the trees, and I need to throw the drone through some turns just to catch up with them. It's definitely a culmination of the drone-racing skill set and the love for riding and snowboarding&mdash;to see them and to be able to anticipate what's going to happen."</div>
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Drones Drive Advances in Winter Sports Coverage

A viral video of a drone flying through a Minneapolis bowling alley is taking over social media.&nbsp;
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Initially shot to garner support for the local business, the drone&rsquo;s operator, Jay Christiesen, had no idea that he would create a cutting-edge cinematic masterpiece for Right Up Our Alley. Overnight, Christiesen&rsquo;s video went viral with hundreds of thousands of views. Hollywood directors and creatives such as James Gunn flooded the comments with praise and support for this groundbreaking film technique.&nbsp;
Why did this video gain so much traction you may ask? Because this 86 second video is one continuous shot, at a high speed, with no editing, and did we mention this all took place in the tight confinements of a bowling alley? Nothing like this has ever been done before, may we state, has been possible before, prior to the utilization of drones.&nbsp;
Being small and speedy machines, drones are able to push the boundaries that no person has been able to do before. By using drones for tight filming in environments, such as bowling alleys, our community is now able to capture the whole picture of atmospheres that we never could before. This technique has added more levels to the cinematic experience that will only continue to develop over time with the increased use of drones by our talented collective.&nbsp;

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