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. The initial objective of both teams is similar, namely getting the AR Drone v2.0 to fly using the Paparazzi Software. However the path taken by each group to reach this objective will be different. In the second part of the project each group is then free to develop a cool or useful application for the AR Drone v2.0, now flying on the paparazzi software.
Objectives
So 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. However each group will obtain this goal following a different path:
- 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.
As mentioned, the second objective or part of the project was to come up with a cool or useful application for the AR Drone 2. Team 1 further developed the AR Drone 2 to include search and rescue applications. Team 2 decided to further develop the AR Drone 2 to be applicable is laser shooting games. Also each team had 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. More information on each project can be found following the links in the next section.
Teams
More information on each project can be found here:
- Team 1: TU Delft - Search and Rescue with AR Drone 2
- Team 2: TU Delft - Lasergame with Autonomous AR Drone
Project Contents
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 for everyone that wants to use Paparazzi on the AR Drone 2 We have set up a AR-Drone 2: starters page. This page will guide you through that process step by step.
Editors note: This page is not complete yet. We will let you know when it nears completion