Shooting Star Mini (drone)

2017: Start of 100 drones indoors

On January 7, 2018 at the Consumer Electronics Show exhibition in Las Vegas during the speech of the head of Intel Brian Krzanich (Brian Krzanich) the company organized a light show from 100 drones flying over audience indoors without use of GPS. The trajectory and movements were programmed in advance, quadcopters were controlled one operator from the computer.

This performance can enter the Guinness Book of Records for the greatest number of the drones managed in the covered premises by one pilot.

Intel Shooting Star Mini drone

The show was delivered using 100 Intel Shooting Star Mini mini-drones — the UAVs reduced by the version which were used in 2017 on the show Super Bowl LI: then in open space 500 drones at the same time flew. Then this record was killed by the Chinese company Ehang with a show from 1000 drones during the Festival of the Chinese lamps in 2017.

It is more difficult to execute flight of the drone in the covered space due to the lack of access to GPS, smaller space for maneuvers and existence of obstacles, such as walls and ceilings. Intel worked on elimination of these difficulties, having created the new Indoor Location System system allowing drones to be managed along with a bypass of obstacles without use by GPS. The Intel Shooting Star Mini drone is located in a palm, has extralight construction, and Intel specially taking into account a possibility of the covered flights was developed for what the size of the drone was reduced and safety features, including protection of the propeller are added.

Using the software, one person can create a light show with the big fleet of tiny drones. According to Intel, it software allows to design a show in weeks, but not months. Each Shooting Star Mini drone has a light source which can create more than 4 billion color combinations.^[1]

Robotics