People Drone Photography : Fly like an eagle: this suit lets you control a drone with your body Fly like an eagle: this suit lets you control a drone with your body April 18 2018 by Dunja Djudjic Leave a Comment There are a few ways of controlling a drone including head movements hand gestures even facial expressions. But have you ever thought of flying a drone while you pretend to be flying on the ground? There is now a suit that enables it developed by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) University in Switzerland. Now you can spread your wings I mean arms and fly like an eagle! EPFL scientists have developed a soft exoskeleton for upper body and they named it FlyJacket. It lets you control a drone by pitching or rolling your upper body. In the video above you can see a demonstration with a simulated flight but also how flying a real drone looks like. Paired with a smart glove you can also include hand gestures to have the drone take off or set a point of interest. The suit has a motion-tracking device built in order to monitor body movements. It is also paired with goggles so the users can get to have the first-person-view from the drone perspective. Since you can fly with the arms spread like wings theres also an arm support so you dont feel uncomfortable. One of the EPFL team members Carine Rognon spoke to IEEE about FlyJacket. She explains that this exoskeleton was designed to make drone flying more natural and intuitive. Her research group had previously studied which movement would feel the most intuitive for flying a drone. As it turned out the position with the arms slightly spread was the most natural for most people. IEEE adds that people even reported less VR-induced motion sickness while controlling a drone with FlyJacket. They explain that it may be because there is less disconnection between the motion that your eyes see and the motion that your body feels. Carine Rognon and her team believe that there is a good commercial potential for FlyJacket. Its designed to be affordable small enough to fit into a backpack and adaptable to many body types. The researchers are working on adding more commands to the drone and the suit. Currently its only possible to use the upper part of the body and the system only works with fixed-wing drones. So the team is researching the possibilities to fly a quadcopter while still keeping the system simple and intuitive. FlyJacket reminded me of childhood when the boys would spread their arms and run like crazy pretending to fly an airplane. I guess it really is the most intuitive (and also logical) way for us to imitate flying. Well its nice to see that flying like this might actually become possible at least up to a point. : ) Although it looks a bit funny Im curious to see whether this kind of system will become available in future. [FlyJacket: An Upper Body Soft Exoskeleton for Immersive Drone Control via The Verge] #photography

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Fly like an eagle: this suit lets you control a drone with your body Fly like an eagle: this suit lets you control a drone with your body April 18 2018 by Dunja Djudjic Leave a Comment There are a few ways of controlling a drone including head movements hand gestures even facial expressions. But have you ever thought of flying a drone while you pretend to be flying on the ground? There is now a suit that enables it developed by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) University in Switzerland. Now you can spread your wings I mean arms and fly like an eagle! EPFL scientists have developed a soft exoskeleton for upper body and they named it FlyJacket. It lets you control a drone by pitching or rolling your upper body. In the video above you can see a demonstration with a simulated flight but also how flying a real drone looks like. Paired with a smart glove you can also include hand gestures to have the drone take off or set a point of interest. The suit has a motion-tracking device built in order to monitor body movements. It is also paired with goggles so the users can get to have the first-person-view from the drone perspective. Since you can fly with the arms spread like wings theres also an arm support so you dont feel uncomfortable. One of the EPFL team members Carine Rognon spoke to IEEE about FlyJacket. She explains that this exoskeleton was designed to make drone flying more natural and intuitive. Her research group had previously studied which movement would feel the most intuitive for flying a drone. As it turned out the position with the arms slightly spread was the most natural for most people. IEEE adds that people even reported less VR-induced motion sickness while controlling a drone with FlyJacket. They explain that it may be because there is less disconnection between the motion that your eyes see and the motion that your body feels. Carine Rognon and her team believe that there is a good commercial potential for FlyJacket. Its designed to be affordable small enough to fit into a backpack and adaptable to many body types. The researchers are working on adding more commands to the drone and the suit. Currently its only possible to use the upper part of the body and the system only works with fixed-wing drones. So the team is researching the possibilities to fly a quadcopter while still keeping the system simple and intuitive. FlyJacket reminded me of childhood when the boys would spread their arms and run like crazy pretending to fly an airplane. I guess it really is the most intuitive (and also logical) way for us to imitate flying. Well its nice to see that flying like this might actually become possible at least up to a point. : ) Although it looks a bit funny Im curious to see whether this kind of system will become available in future. [FlyJacket: An Upper Body Soft Exoskeleton for Immersive Drone Control via The Verge] #photography