Drones are proving to be one of the real-game changing technologies. A few years after their breakout into the mainstream, individual unmanned autonomous vehicles UAVs also known as Drones, controlled by joysticks, mobile phones, and radio controllers are accomplishing very useful tasks such as security and aerial photography. Notably, drone technology has been employing a lot of conventional thinking and resonance around logistics, photography, surveillance and many other industries.
However, this is nothing compared to the next revolutionary drone technology that will allow a single human operator to control multiple drones using a brain-computer interface. According to Panos Artemiadis, a researcher, and director of Human-Oriented Robotics and Control Lab (HORC) at Arizona State University, using multiple drones requires several human operators, which presents a problem in coordination. He adds that the emerging possibility to operate drones using a brain-computer interface will change how we interact with them. By allowing us to control different swarms of UAVs concurrently, this approach is set to open up new classes of applications. UAV’s that will use the human-like brain interface mechanism will again allow us to do things that would be otherwise impossible with a single drone.
Below are some of the applications that this drone technology may help:
Search and Rescue Missions
Robotics expert Artemiadis says that it will be possible for humans to collaborate with swarms of drones in search and rescue operations. The interface will allow a single operator to control many Drones, and at the same time, use them to cover more extensive grounds in less time compared to a single UAV or team of humans. The operator can also direct the swarm closer to objects that require closer surveillance in the video stream.
