Brain-controlled drones are here

September 29, 2017 

A UAV or a unmanned autonomous vehicles directed by joysticks, radio controllers, and mobile phones are already accomplishing a variety of useful tasks, such as aerial photography and security patrols.  But when you are controlling more than one drone at once, then you need more than one person to help operate them. With more than one controller this effects the coordination of the drone and who's flying it. 
            But we do not have to worry about this anymore.  According to Panos Artemiadis, director of the Human-Oriented Robotics and Control (HORC) Lab at Arizona State University. They have came up with an idea where now a single person using emerging human-brain interfaces can control a swarm of drones, making possible new classes of applications.  Now this is not only so that we do not have to hold a controller in our hands when we can control a whole swarm of drone just by the human brain. 

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Ways that this can help us out and work a lot more efficient than using a handheld control system is search and rescue missions where people will collaborate with swarms of robots in search and rescue scenarios where robotic teams to cover larger areas in less time and make it quicker to find whatever they are looking for.  Another advantage is fighting fires.  A drone swarm can be used to track the spread of a forest fire over large areas in real time, allowing firefighters to adjust their plans accordingly.  Being able to control drones by our brains and being able to control more than one opens a work of advantages for us and what we can do with them.