This was the final project for one of my courses. The project uses another project cvdrone as a base for communicating with Parrot AR Drone 2.0.
The main aim of the project was to make the drone guard an object. The drone has 2 modes:
1. Safe mode: In this mode, the drone will be idle sitting opposite to the object with
the object in focus.
2. Tracking mode: This mode is triggered whenever any intruder picks up the object and
tries to run away with it. In this mode, the drone will start to
follow the object while sending a text message to the owner through
facebook. While tracking, the owner can ask the drone about its
status through facebook, which will make the drone respond by send
the picture of what it is seeing as well as with the status of
its flight. The drone also send a stress signal to any laptop
connected to the wifi hotspot to use their speaker to raise an alarm.
Python modules used: fbchat, pygame
OS used: Ubuntu 16.04
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To build the code, go to DroneGO/build/unix and use the makefile file to build the system.
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In order to connect to the internet during the flight, you need to conect the laptop to different wifi hotspots: one created by the drone for communication and the other hotpsot which is connected to the internet.
For reference, check the picture:
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To control the laptop speaker, copy the 'sound.py' from DroneGO/build/unix to all the laptops connected to the wifi hotspot connected to the internet. Make sure that you run the file in each of those laptops prior to runnig the drone as it will put all the laptops in listen mode.
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Also, edit the 'fbChat.py' and update the username and password of the facebook profile used by the drone. This facebook profile is needed in order to communicate with the owner.
The picture below shows the architecture of the whole code.
