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(45,358 posts)I assume they communicate with each other?
TheWraith
(24,331 posts)Putting enough processing power on board to do collision avoidance might weigh them down and eat battery life.
tridim
(45,358 posts)It's really the most efficient way to guage location relative to each other. There are too many variables for a computer to keep track of. A computer could keep them in sync, but not in perfect formation.
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)whoever controls the military version of these runs the world.
tridim
(45,358 posts)TheWraith
(24,331 posts)Hovering like that is going to take a lot of power, and I doubt even the densest lithium-ion battery could keep those things going for more than fifteen minutes or so.
And every added bit of weight, such as a camera, is going to reduce that.
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)little tiny drones, coming for the kill....
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)All they have to do is load them with a thimble of C4 each and you will never escape, net or no.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)I forget what they were called, but they acted very much like that.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)wandy
(3,539 posts)My approch, for what it's worth, would be to give each one sensing ability and send the data back to a central CPU or CPU array for processing. You can get an ungodley amount of processor power these days. This would reduce weight and cordinate controle.
Except; I get the creapy feeling that each one is atonimus and is working in a sort of 'self aware' harmoney with it's peers to execuit one high level directive.
However it's done, it's slick.
tridim
(45,358 posts)I think this solution is just using camera tracking, which makes it much less impressive IMO. They aren't autonymous at all. There are no tracking cameras in the real world and GPS probably isn't going to be nearly accurate enough.