The Russian company "Sverkh" has created an educational platform based on a quadcopter. This will allow schoolchildren and students to program the flights of drone groups. This was reported by the press service of the Foundation for Supporting Projects of the National Technology Initiative (NTI Foundation).
The 250 g drone has a powerful computer, camera, and sensor on board. Its software implements technical vision technology. The device can be supplied as a kit for learning how to assemble and repair programmable unmanned aerial vehicles.
The quadcopter platform is based on ROS (Robot Operating System), a popular and widely recognized standard in the field of robotics. It allows not only programming primitive autonomous flight, but also using modern machine learning and swarm interaction technologies.
The device is designed in compliance with safety requirements for use in educational laboratories and on sites: the drone is equipped with protective systems and made of materials that reduce risks during test flights, the foundation said.
The company provided the first samples of the platform to one of the Russian higher educational institutions for use in undergraduate and graduate educational programs.
It is planned to create a high-tech industry cluster in Sevastopol, which will develop information technology, electronics, and systems for unmanned aerial vehicles. It will appear before 2036, but the details of its structure and specialization have not yet been disclosed.
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