Computer Vision Drone

Goal

This is a fun project to build an interactive drone.

that has computer vision features
that has distance sensors
that has audio in and output

First flight:

The drone should be able to ...

navigate inside a room and detect obstacles
find persons and detect faces
interact with persons
- talk to the person
- take a picture of the person
- interact with social media (e.g.)

Documentation

We are writing a project diary to document our progress and what we have learned.

Jan 2017: Getting Started - Evaluating Drone Hardware
Jan 2017: First Features and Milestones
Jan 2017: Perception of the drones surroundings
10.02.2017: Person tracking with dlib correlation tracker
17.02.2017: Optical Flow Demo with OpenCV
18.02.2017: Install OpenCV on AWS Ubuntu with CUDA
19.02.2017: Creating a mainboard
26.02.2017: Mounting hardware on the drone
03.03.2017: Stream Bebop video with Python and OpenCV
06.03.2017: Land the drone by voice-command

Project Team, communication and Dev Environment

Team

We work at codecentric in Karlsruhe and Hamburg, Germany. codecentric encourages every employee to start innovative projects and we have one day per week to work on them ... We are hiring ;)

Tobias Schaber @tobiasschaber
Raphael Manke
Michael Plümacher
Andrey Skorikov
Oli Moser @moseroli

Communication