The article explores the deployment of teams of aerial robots for large-scale filming in complex environments like team sports and cinematography. The authors discuss the challenges of coordinating these robots in cluttered environments where obstacles can cause occlusions and increase the risk of collision. They developed a multi-robot multi-actor view planner with an occlusion-aware objective for filming groups of people and compared it with a greedy formation planner. The results showed that their sequential planner generates 14% greater view reward over the actors for three scenarios and comparable performance to formation planning on two others. The study demonstrates effective coordination of teams of aerial robots for filming groups in environments cluttered with obstacles.
Publication date: 18 Oct 2023
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Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.10863
