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paulhayes / copterface

Created during a nodecopter hackday in Brighton. The example script attempts to position an ar-drone so that it centers on any face detected in the center of it's field of vision. EXPERIMENTAL.
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Drone moves back without reacting to a face #6

Open RGDEV2022 opened 7 years ago

RGDEV2022 commented 7 years ago

HI, I ran the example.js and the drone takes off and continues to move back. On the debugging video even though it detects my face, it doesn't react. It just keeps moving back. I tried it with another AR-drone I have and in that one the drone moves to the left continuously without reacting to my face. Any help would be much appreciated, it's for a college project.

paulhayes commented 7 years ago

Be sure to launch the drone from a floor with a patterned surface ( the underbelly of the copter has a down facing camera for detecting drift ).

When the drone is sitting on the level ground before taking off, press the C key.

RGDEV2022 commented 6 years ago

When you mean a patterned surface, do you mean a surface like a rug with a pattern or a cracked floor or something of that sor?

Also does example.js have a function to execute for the C key?

Thanks for you reply!

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Be sure to launch the drone from a floor with a patterned surface ( the underbelly of the copter has a down facing camera for detecting drift ).

When the drone is sitting on the level ground before taking off, press the C key.

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paulhayes commented 6 years ago

At the moment, line 270 of example.js is when the script checks if the c key is pressed and calls the calibrate function of the drone. However you can see it's a manual call to the UDP control library. Not something I've written into the copterface library.

High contrast patterned flooring is best, but the same results can be achieved with a patterned some electrical tape made into cross patterns on the floor.

Does the drone yaw correctly to follow your face? The moving forward is very sensitive, so I've just to make it's forward movements very gentle. It works for me, but only when the accelerometers are calibrated properly. Have a look at the acceleration values displayed when example.js is running. They are a bit weird when the drone is not flying, but should work the rest of the time.

RGDEV2022 commented 6 years ago

I will definitely test this out. I couldn’t test it because it just kept moving away from me. I’ll give you feedback in a few days.

Also is there another drone you would recommend to replace the Ardrone?

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At the moment, line 270 of example.js is when the script checks if the c key is pressed and calls the calibrate function of the drone. However you can see it's a manually call. Not something I've written into the main library.

High contrast patterned flooring is best, but the same results can be achieved with a patterned some electrical tape made into cross patterns on the floor.

Does the drone yaw correctly to follow your face? The moving forward is very sensitive, so I've just to make it's forward movements very gentle. It works for me, but only when the accelerometers are calibrated properly. Have a look at the acceleration values displayed when example.js is running. They are a bit weird when the drone is not flying, but should work the rest of the time.

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RGDEV2022 commented 6 years ago

Hi, could I use this same program on a parrot Beebop drone? Or which other drones will it be compatible with?

On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 6:22 AM Rojitha Goonesekere rojitha.g@gmail.com wrote:

I will definitely test this out. I couldn’t test it because it just kept moving away from me. I’ll give you feedback in a few days.

Also is there another drone you would recommend to replace the Ardrone?

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At the moment, line 270 of example.js is when the script checks if the c key is pressed and calls the calibrate function of the drone. However you can see it's a manually call. Not something I've written into the main library.

High contrast patterned flooring is best, but the same results can be achieved with a patterned some electrical tape made into cross patterns on the floor.

Does the drone yaw correctly to follow your face? The moving forward is very sensitive, so I've just to make it's forward movements very gentle. It works for me, but only when the accelerometers are calibrated properly. Have a look at the acceleration values displayed when example.js is running. They are a bit weird when the drone is not flying, but should work the rest of the time.

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paulhayes commented 6 years ago

I'm afriad the library I use ( ar-drone ) only works with the parrot 2.0 AR Drone.

I'm sorry.

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Hi, could I use this same program on a parrot Beebop drone? Or which other drones will it be compatible with?

On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 6:22 AM Rojitha Goonesekere rojitha.g@gmail.com wrote:

I will definitely test this out. I couldn’t test it because it just kept moving away from me. I’ll give you feedback in a few days.

Also is there another drone you would recommend to replace the Ardrone?

On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 6:19 AM Paul Hayes notifications@github.com wrote:

At the moment, line 270 of example.js is when the script checks if the c key is pressed and calls the calibrate function of the drone. However you can see it's a manually call. Not something I've written into the main library.

High contrast patterned flooring is best, but the same results can be achieved with a patterned some electrical tape made into cross patterns on the floor.

Does the drone yaw correctly to follow your face? The moving forward is very sensitive, so I've just to make it's forward movements very gentle. It works for me, but only when the accelerometers are calibrated properly. Have a look at the acceleration values displayed when example.js is running. They are a bit weird when the drone is not flying, but should work the rest of the time.

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