Fully Autonomous Quadrotor for indoor flight

I have an interest in developing a fully autonomous quadrotor robot specifically for indoor flight.

I am an engineer (what I do in my day job) with experience in robotics, computer vision, navigation/localization, and overall AI.

I was wondering what peoples opinions would be on what quadcopter platform I should attempt to base this project of mine?

So far i am thinking of using an AR Parrot 2, DJI Phantom 3, or a 3DR Solo as the quadcopter.

I currently intend to use a Jetson TK1 as the the onboard computer for control. Also my idea is to use a combination of an on board camera stereo pair, a (or pair of) depth sensor camera(s) (such as a Kinect, or any other OpenNI compatible sensor), a IMU (probably an XSens), along with N ultra sonic rangers.

I know this may seem overly ambitious, but i am familiar with the current research in controlling a quadcopter via on board sensors. I am also adept at developing and expanding upon techniques such as particle filter based localization, visual odometry, SLAM, and Kalman filter based sensor fusion.

The key concept here is that i would like to have this thing be able to fly indoors, and explore its environment.

Any suggestions?

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Marvelmind Robotics July 25, 2017 at 3:10pm

A new demo of fully autonomous flight indoor:
Prasanna November 29, 2016 at 5:26pm

In case you are still looking for some response!

I heard good things about DJI Matrice100 + the guidance.

Not sure about the size of the drone and the price..

I think that this is a larger drone than the solo but has a much larger payload capacity.

(Which Im sure will be good for the TX1, TK1)

Matrice 100 also has ROS compatibility.

Question for the group - how does one accommodate for the larger power pull by the TX1 19V ??

Thanks

Prasanna
Marvelmind Robotics July 9, 2016 at 7:14am

You can use a precise (+-2cm) Indoor "GPS": http://marvelmind.com/.

Here is a couple of demos:
unnamed idea March 19, 2016 at 4:38am

I am also beginning masters project using Jetson Tx1 (why do you use tk1 by the way, if there is a reason apart from the price). I am still planning either will it be only cameras or a lidar would be included too. Are you planning to use only 2 cameras or 4*2 cameras for all directions? And I would like to learn your approach on the problem, which type of slam, neural net training etc. As for the controller, the pixhawk handles all the flight related jobs, you can just "control the controller" via mavlink.
Gleave February 24, 2016 at 3:44pm

Yuneec USA is coming out with the Typhoon H mid March. The RealSense adapter that is coupled with this drone allows it autonomous flight and collision prevention in real time. Youtube the Typhoon H collision testing. Also I am a certified Yuneec dealer if you need one when it comes out.
Jerry Giant February 15, 2016 at 11:06am

lets begin with a practical slam.
- Ryan > Jerry Giant February 15, 2016 at 11:16am
  
  Any suggestions on a quadcopter that would be good for indoor use, has a payload that could support the TK1 and at least on kinect like sensor, and has an open enough api that I could control the copter at a low enough level to achieve highly reactive behaviors?
  - Jerry Giant > Ryan February 17, 2016 at 10:45am
    
    DJI has a TK1 board but close source.
    
    I am building one, currently planning the interfaces and form factors etc.

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