Matthew's DIY autonomous drone

matthewbatcheler
Entry ID #: 7855
Created: Sat, May 30, 2020 8:49 PM

Hi! I'm Matthew from New Zealand. I'm 16 years old and do VRC with my school club (team 2908). When I saw this competition I was quite keen on entering, but didn't have a RAD drone, or in fact any programable drone. Instead, I decided to make my 'dumb' Syma X5C able to fly itself. I accomplish this by using a Kinect depth camera to track the drone, several PID loops to determine the necessary power to apply to each control axis, then an arduino and NRF24L01 radio to send the commands to the drone, mimicking the handset. The drone can then fly along a sequence of predefined points by itself. After all, what's more creative than creating your own autonomous drone?

Files

There is nothing here.

Links / Videos

Video Explanation and Demonstration

This is the video I made to explain how the system works

Github Page

This page hosts the code I used in the project, and a slightly more technical explanation than the video.