620r and a Autonomous Drone :)

[cemaykan]

Well, I had to try my Skydio 2 autonomous drone for a short drive to see how it can keep up.  It is quite amazing that, it can avoid trees, power lines and pretty much anything. All I had to do was drive, well drive under 35 mph - which is the hardest part   

 

Put together a short little video, hope you folks enjoy it:

 

[11Budlite]

Very cool, thanks for sharing!  My son has a pretty nice drone that I thought it would be fun to do something similar.

[JohnCh]

Very cool!  Not sure which is more impressive: the drone's tracking ability or your restraint to drive a 620R below 35mph on an empty country road.   How far away can the drone continue tracking the car and what happens if you exceed that range because of a momentary lapse in restraint?  Does it maintain that last position and wait for the car to return?

 

-John

[Croc]

I really like that.  

 

What happens to the drone when you go over 35mph?  It seems to pull up and let you go?  What does it do then - search for a new target?

 

 

Edited to add: Great minds think alike so John and I posted the exact same question at the exact same time!

[JohnCh]

According to time stamp, @Croc and I posted that same question within a minute of each other.  Scary...

 

-John

[panamericano]

Great video.  Thanks for showing it.  You should hire the rig out to folks doing their fancy pants BAT blurbs.

[wxywb021254]

1 hour ago, Croc said:

I really like that.  

 

What happens to the drone when you go over 35mph?  It seems to pull up and let you go?  What does it do then - search for a new target?

 

 

Edited to add: Great minds think alike so John and I posted the exact same question at the exact same time!

If I remember correctly, from my experience with dji, it will try to follow until it thinks it lost the object and then will start hovering around…

[cemaykan]

Yep, if you go too fast basically drone will just stand still until it can see you again or if the battery level drops under 10% it flies back to where it took of and land automatically. There is aslo a beacon you can get which increases the range beyond visual tracking.  Those roads are great here, and yes on the way back home i was able to warm up the rear tires 😀

[JohnCh]

@cemaykan this may solve the problem of needing to keep your speed below 35mph.  With a top speed over 135mph, it should have a better chance keeping up with your 620R  

 

 

BTW just noticed this is in General forum and have moved it to the Video forum to make future discoverability easier.

 

-John