Inspiration: The autonomous drones in the Call of Duty game
How it works: The drone tracks a certain colored target, the user can manually take over the control at anytime with the keyboard. We also added a gesture (basically drawing a seven) to land the drone
Challenges I ran into: All the available api's for the ARDrone 2.0 are several years old. The Javadrone Api that we used was actually for the ARDrone 1.0, so we have to do a lot of reconfiguration for it to work for the ARDrone 2.0
Accomplishments that I'm proud of: Because of the updated video format in the 2.0 version, video feed was experiencing significant lags, but we managed to have achieved target tracking despite the lags.
What I learned: Computer Vision is hard :( Very hard
What's next for The Following: enhance the performance of detecting distance to target. Maybe change the tracking mechanism to pattern tracking instead of color tracking.
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