AR DroneHemanth Chenchu, Fangda Li, Michael Aspatore, Maxwell Dapper

Akshay Naik, Nicholas Quimby, Francisco Silva, Ishaan KohliInstructors:

Prof. Charles Bouman, Prof. Samuel Midkiff

• AR Drone is French made robotic flying product that can be controlled by Iphone/Ipad via a wifi connection.

• By using open source software, we can fly the AR Drone with a joystick.

• We use Labview as new programming platform instead of using C programming.

• We have been able to get the drone to track a ball using Labview.

• Up until now, the project has been using Gostai, but the software is to expensive to purchase.

• AR Drone will be also capable of identifying different objects such as faces using OpenCV libraries.

Project Background

The Labview toolkit allows flexible control of the AR Drone

Labview enables us to use any input method to control the drone

Xbox controller Joystick Autonomous Navigation

OpenCV realizes more complicated tracking pattern based on color, shape, face, multi-object etc.

Labview Toolkit / OpenCV

• Moved to LabView and the OpenCV platform instead of C programming for the robotic control.

• Created a basic flying platform with image processing to track a red object in a 3-D space.

• Pre-programmed path for the drone using GPS tracker was partially achieved.

• OpenCV Color and shape tracking with optimization.• Working on certain animation using Labview.

Progress

Application for flight control using joystick or autonomous flight.

Goal : Command the drone to complete various image processing based tasks using LabView

Future goals• Use GPS to connect to the drone from long distances

for remote flying.• Get the drone to track faces using openCV facial

recognition libraries.• Explore ways of getting the drone to recognize multiple

objects.• Use OpenCV to process object recognition and

LabView to command the drone simultaneously

A.R. Drone Linux

LabView

Via Wi-Fi

OpenCV

OSX