AR Drone TeamTeam Members: Manish Pati, Jose Jurado,

Luke Walsh, Jack Hammons, Steven BogenshutzInstructors: Prof. Samuel Midkiff and Prof Charles Bouman

Purdue UniversitySchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Urbi used to control the AR Drone and track a ball or other functions using Gostai modules.

• With the tracking info, AR Drone could navigate automatically.

• AR Drone will be also capable be identifying different objects to accomplish tasks.

Project Background

Urbi is an open source cross-platform software platform in C++.

Urbi is used to develop applications for robotics and complex systems.

Urbi also includes the urbiscript orchestration language which is a parallel and event-driven script language. UObject components can be plugged into urbiscript and appear as native objects that can be scripted to specify their interactions and data exchange.

Urbi Open source

Goal : To use the gostai lab to command the drone to complete various image processing based tasks

Future goals

• Track a path using the bottom camera.

• Track people.A.R. Drone

Linux

Windows, Linux, iOS

Via Wi-Fi

Joystick

OpenCv

Urbi

*NOTE: There are two ways of making the drone fly. Red designates the hard coded platform in C. The black track is the current model being used with Urbi.

• Jose Jurado and Manish Pati worked on the AR Drone during the summer.

• Successfully got the drone to track a red object and follow .

Summer Progress

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

• Moved away from Gostai Lab and Gostai Studio since the software is too expensive.

• Set up a new platform to fly the drone with the joystick, using open source software written for windows.

Progress