TU Delft - Autonomous Quadrotor

TU Delft - Autonomous Quadrotor

On 3 September 2012 two student teams of the Delft University of Technology started with a UAV robotics project, under guidance of dr. ir. M. Wisse and ir. B. D. W. Remes. Each team would have a slightly different initial objective. After completing this objective each team will be free to set its own objectives for the next phase of this project.

Objectives

Our first objective is to enable the Parrot AR Drone v2.0 (from now on referred to as the AR Drone 2) to fly autonomously on the Paparazzi Software.

• Team one will work with the raw navigation data, creating their own software to retrieve and interpret the date. They will need to describe a new board configuration within for Paparazzi to work with.
• Team two will work with the programming as developed by Parrot. They will need to interpret the data as provided by the program and determine what data to send back.

The second objective is that each team has to add a GPS sensor to the AR Drone 2. We will use the US Globalsat BU-353 GPS receiver for this purpose and mount it to the AR Drone 2 using the USB connection on the board.

Project Contents

• AR.Drone 2 - Specifications
  • Motor specifcations
  • Sensor specifications
  • GPS specifications

Teams

• Team 1: TU Delft - Search and Rescue with AR Drone 2
• Team 2: TU Delft - Lasergame with Autonomous AR Drone

Development

To try and keep you up to date with the most recent developments in this project we have created the TU Delft: AR Drone 2 - News page. Here we will post breakthroughs, summaries of a page update and small facts that might be nice to know.

Installing Paparazzi on AR.Drone 2

Installing Paparazzi on the AR Drone 2 is taking more effort than we initially expected. To make life easier on both Paparazzi users and developers we are setting up two separate pages. The Beginners Page is meant for everyone that wants to use Paparazzi as the control system on their UAV. It will guide them through all the choices they will have to make, from selecting the correct hardware modules in Paparazzi to how to use the Paparazzi GCS.

The Developers Page is meant for anyone that wants help develop Paparazzi into a more all-round platform that can be used on any and all UAVs. It will describe in depth what is needed in order to add a new modules to Paparazzi without ruining the rest of the architecture.

Editors note: Both these pages are not complete yet. We will let you know when they near completion

• Beginners Page
• Developers Page