Auto Drone

Inspiration

  I'm writing a paper on the efficiency boost of drone in the field of search and rescue and felt like it would be fun to actually make something of the sort.

What it does

 Autonomously control a Tello drone from a computer.

How we built it

 Python

Challenges we ran into

 The drone does not fly inside so testing was sparse until I learned it works in a garage with an open door. The drone pushes too much air into its surroundings de-stabilizing it and not allowing it to communicate if used indoors. This coupled with the rain this morning made testing very hard. Also I've never touched udp socketing and the drone's ability to communicate over them.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The drone flies and I can control it on a command line interface. Also, the drone follows a set path decently when tested, see above for why it is not fully implemented. Also, I capture video frames from the drone's camera for facial detection analysis.

What we learned

 It's hard to fly a drone autonomously because of all the complications of sending and receiving information.

What's next for Auto Drone

 I actually get it to fly without user input along a predefined area.

Built With

• opencv
• python