Counting Penguins with a Multi-Drone Imaging System #drone #droneday

Fascinating read and video coverage from Stanford:

The use of multiple drones circumvents these challenges, and it was made possible by a unique route planning algorithm developed by the Stanford researchers. Given a survey space, the algorithm partitioned the space, assigned destination points to each drone and figured out how to move the drones through those points in the most efficient way, limiting backtracking and redundant travel.

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