伴你慢跑的智能飞行器

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.

毫无变化的例行慢跑是否让你感到厌倦？难以在15分钟的路途中跑的更快？试试Joggobot吧，一个盘旋于你头顶，并且可以促使你跑得更快的飞行器。

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.

该飞行器是在Parrot e基础上改进的.，按照设计，它会追随一件橙、蓝色相间的时尚T恤衫。飞行器上的摄像机用来观察T恤衫上的图案，并使飞行器悬浮于地面3.5英尺高。如果它失去了图案的视野，就会自动降落。

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.

来自于澳大利亚皇家墨尔本理工大学Exertion Games实验室的Eberhard Grther和Floyd Mueller设计了改造飞行器的软件。他们计划研究人与机器之间关于运动的交互，他们相信跑步者可以通过不同的方式来使用这个系统。它可以设计成按照一定速度飞行于跑步者的前面，从而可以设定一个速度来进行跑步训练。或者，它也可以旁边或前面以等速伴随着跑步者。

“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.

“这个机器人应该成为慢跑者的领跑员吗？如果是，它会具有激励性吗？或者，Joggobot应该更像一只狗，成为主人的好伙伴吗？”他们在网站上写道。飞行器的动作选择会通过不同的方式来影响慢跑者的体验，并且可以“进一步推动慢跑的体验”，研究团队说。