Students and graduates of the College of Computer Sciences at NUST MISIS, as part of the “Artomatika” team, presented at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in the United Arab Emirates. They showcased an artist robot that was used to create the largest street mural in the world, painted by an autonomous drone in Novosibirsk.
At the IROS-2024 conference, researchers and developers from around the world present their scientific papers, while companies showcase the best robots. This year, scientists from 60 countries submitted over 3,600 publications. At the event, NUST MISIS students and graduates Georgiy Bondar, Andrey Korigodsky, Matvey Urvantsov, and Artem Vasyunik discussed the creation of the art object in Novosibirsk from a technological perspective. The mural, applied to the facade using a unique drone and software, became the largest painted object on an architectural structure created by an autonomous flying drone. The scientific paper on this topic made it to the shortlist for the Best Entertainment and Amusement Papers award at the event.
“In July 2023, representatives from Universal University approached our team of developers. They proposed creating a drone to participate in the project intensive ‘Archipelago 2023’. The concept and the artwork were developed by contemporary artist Misha Most. Our tasks included designing the drone’s structure and software for applying the drawing on the wall of the sports complex at Novosibirsk State Technical University,” said Georgiy Bondar, the project’s operational director and head of the robotics club at NUST MISIS.
A year after Novosibirsk, at “Archipelago-2024” in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the team completed a new project and developed a technology for group flight to simultaneously draw with two drones. Later, they became speakers for a hands-on course titled “Programming an Artist Drone for Autonomous Image Application”, created by University 2035 and Universal University with support from the “Platform NTI”.
Earlier, we reported on how the team created the largest mural using an autonomous drone during the educational intensive “Archipelago-2023” in Novosibirsk.
