伴你慢跑的智能飛行器

Same old jogging routine got you bored? Can’t move your leaden legs faster than a 15-minute mile? Turn into a juggernaut with Joggobot, a hovercraft that will fly above your head and motivate you to run faster.

毫無變化的例行慢跑是否讓你感到厭倦？難以在15分鐘的路途中跑的更快？試試Joggobot吧，一個盤旋於你頭頂，並且可以促使你跑得更快的飛行器。

The bot is a modified Parrot e, programmed to follow a fashionable orange and blue running T-shirt. Cameras on the drone are programmed to watch the pattern and hover about three and a half feet off the ground. If it loses sight of the pattern, the drone lands automatically.

該飛行器是在Parrot e基礎上改進的.，按照設計，它會追隨一件橙、藍色相間的時尚T恤衫。飛行器上的攝像機用來觀察T恤衫上的圖案，並使飛行器懸浮於地面3.5英尺高。如果它失去了圖案的視野，就會自動降落。

Eberhard Grther and Floyd Mueller of the Exertion Games Lab at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia built the software to modify the drone. They plan to study human-robot interaction regarding exercise, and they believe runners might use systems like this in a variety of ways. It could be programmed to fly a certain distance ahead of a runner and at a certain speed, setting a pace for training runs. Or it could fly alongside or in front no matter the runner’s speed.

來自於澳大利亞皇家墨爾本理工大學Exertion Games實驗室的Eberhard Grther和Floyd Mueller設計了改造飛行器的軟件。他們計劃研究人與機器之間關於運動的交互，他們相信跑步者可以通過不同的方式來使用這個系統。它可以設計成按照一定速度飛行於跑步者的前面，從而可以設定一個速度來進行跑步訓練。或者，它也可以旁邊或前面以等速伴隨着跑步者。

“Should the robot be a pacemaker for the jogger? If so, can this be motivating? Or should the Joggobot be more like a dog, reacting to the jogger like a companion?” they write on their website. The drone’s chosen actions will affect the jogger’s experience in different ways, and could “further the experience of jogging,” the team says.

“這個機器人應該成為慢跑者的領跑員嗎？如果是，它會具有激勵性嗎？或者，Joggobot應該更像一隻狗，成為主人的好夥伴嗎？”他們在網站上寫道。飛行器的動作選擇會通過不同的方式來影響慢跑者的體驗，並且可以“進一步推動慢跑的體驗”，研究團隊説。