----------------------------------------------------------------- David's CV Drone (= OpenCV + AR.Drone + Custom Functionalities) Copyright (C) 2014 David Qiu https://github.com/dvdape/cvdrone ----------------------------------------------------------------- FUNCTIONALITIES Some custom functionalities are appended to the CV Drone project and they are placed at /src/functionalities/ folder. (1) LocateColoredObject.hpp: Manually finding a expected color block, and activating the auto locking function, the drone is expected to lock itself above the color block, and keeping it at the central screen. The core function of color block detection is designed by David Qiu (david@davidqiu.com). ----------------------------------------------------------------- CV Drone (= OpenCV + AR.Drone) Copyright (C) 2013 puku0x https://github.com/puku0x/cvdrone ----------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION CV Drone is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of EITHER: (1) The GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The text of the GNU Lesser General Public License is included with this library in the file cvdrone-license-LGPL.txt. (2) The BSD-style license that is included with this library in the file cvdrone-license-BSD.txt. This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the files cvdrone-license-LGPL.txt and cvdrone-license-BSD.txt for more details. HOW TO INSTALL Please unzip "cvdrone-master.zip" into an arbitrary directory. HOW TO UNINSTALL Please delete the cvdrone folder. BEFORE YOU BUILD You should install Visual Studio before you build CV Drone. CV Drone supports VC++2005/2008/2010/2012. To download VS, please see http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads . HOW TO USE 1. Open \build\vs20xx\test.sln 2. Press F7 to build. 3. Press F5 (or Ctrl+F5) to run. 4. You can play around with OpenCV. Sample codes are in "src\samples". FOR AR.DRONE 1.0 USERS Please update your AR.Drone's firmware to 1.11.5. FOR AR.DRONE 2.0 USERS Please update your AR.Drone's firmware to 2.4.7. FOR VS2010 USERS You can't build CV Drone by VS2010 after you installed VS2012. To build VS2010, you should uninstall ".Net Framework 4.5" and re-install "4.0". LIBRARY DEPENDENCIES CV Drone uses following libraries. - OpenCV 2.4.6 http://opencv.org/ - FFmpeg 2.0 http://www.ffmpeg.org/ - stdint.h/inttypes.h for Microsoft Visual Studio r26 https://code.google.com/p/msinttypes/ - POSIX Threads for Win32 2.9.1 http://www.sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/ License files for each library can be found in the 'licenses' folder. Thank you.