On a remote delivery route, my drone will take care of itself.

At the end of last year, Amazon announced its drone delivery program and displayed its own prime Air. Now Prime Air has been iterating through the Nineth generation, formally applying to the FAA for a larger range of outdoor flight plans. Also do the drone deliveries and the dronenet,matternet we've covered before, and so on.

Previous colleagues have joked that the drone in the domestic use, it is very likely to go forever, just buy a universal remote control is done. However, it was just a joke, and now we are more concerned about whether the long-distance delivery of drones can be achieved, in other words, they will not be broken on the road ...

In general, drones need to withstand strong winds, sensor bias or fuel loss, which require huge amounts of data. A team at MIT recently unveiled a new algorithm that could help drones "monitor their own health", specifically, drones can predict their oil levels and the immediate status of sensor devices such as propellers and cameras, and then take appropriate action.

The team has also developed a new algorithm for off-line navigation, which calculates all possible routes and avoids obstructions before takeoff. According to Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi, a member of the research group, the machine itself was easy to get out of the air in the hours of drone deliveries, but after a lot of testing, the chances of a drone failure with the self "health monitoring" algorithm were much smaller.