About

Gender

Male


Location

Gent,O.Vl.


About Me:

Retired prof. in (micro)electronics


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Like building, designing electronic sensor modules. Today's project is designing and building a quadcopter.


Hometown:

Gent, Belgium


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andre van calster posted a blog post
This video describes shortly the hardware and software aspects of my self-made tracking drone. The major parts are: a holybro frame, a pixhaxk 6c flight controller, a raspberry pi 4, a oak-d camera and 8 sensors (gps, lidar, compass, ...). The…
Oct 9
andre van calster posted a blog post
My Holybro 500 v2 is equipped with a Luxonis OAK-D-Lite camera (depthAI) and a RPi4. A python artificial intelligence (AI) code on the RPi4 detects objects (f.i. persons) using mobilenet ssd. The area of the enclosing object rectangle estimates the…
Aug 9, 2023
andre van calster commented on andre van calster's blog post Quadcopter with OAK-D depthAI stereo camera
"Hi Glenn. Thx. I have a github summarizing most of my work: https://github.com/avncalst/drone_cnn. This was my first test with the OAK-D. I intend to elaborate more on my avoidance script and improve it a lot."
Dec 20, 2021
andre van calster posted a blog post
I have upgraded my quadcopter XJ470 with a Skydroid T12 radio, an OAK-D depthAI stereo camera and a Raspberry Pi 4 companion computer. This configuration enables state-of-the art artificial intelligence drone piloting. The skydroid t12 enables long…
Dec 4, 2021
andre van calster commented on andre van calster's blog post DJI drone controlled by AI Python script
"Thx Terje"
Nov 24, 2021
andre van calster posted a blog post
The RosettaDrone 2 app creates a Mavlink wrapper for the DJI SDK and enables Mavlink commands to control the DJI drone. A Python script running on a PC is linked by UDP to the RosettaDrone 2 app. As a test case a SSD Mobilenet AI algorithm controls…
Jun 15, 2021
andre van calster liked andre van calster's blog post DJI TELLO becomes smart
Mar 24, 2021
andre van calster posted a blog post
This video demonstrates face tracking using a DJI TELLO drone. By means of the Python DJITELLOPY SDK and the mobilenet ssd artificial intelligence neural network the drone is converted into a smart drone. Tensorflow Lite and Google's Coral usb…
Mar 22, 2021
andre van calster commented on andre van calster's blog post ArduCopter-Sitl for artificial intelligence
"ros package "web_video_server" enables using my ArduCopter-Sitl code in a DonkeyCar environment"
Apr 4, 2020
andre van calster commented on andre van calster's blog post ArduCopter-Sitl for artificial intelligence
"Thx Rana"
Mar 29, 2020
andre van calster posted a blog post
This video demonstrates a modified ArduPilot-Gazebo simulation for artificial intelligence (AI). A ROS subscriber is implemented with a AI python script. A human walking actor is added in Gazebo to simulate a human obstacle. More details can be…
Mar 28, 2020
andre van calster commented on andre van calster's blog post Adaptation of a ArduPilot Rover to an autonomous DonkeyCar
"Thx Andreas"
Dec 20, 2019
andre van calster commented on andre van calster's blog post Adaptation of a ArduPilot Rover to an autonomous DonkeyCar
"Thx Chris"
Dec 19, 2019
andre van calster posted a blog post
This video illustrates the adaptation of a ArduPilot Rover to the Artificial Intelligence DonkeyCar environment. This includes the adding-editing of 5 files of the DonkeyCar library. A linear AI model trained by behavioral cloning resulted in a…
Dec 19, 2019
andre van calster commented on andre van calster's blog post improved inference speed on rpi3 using Intel's NCS1
"A faster inference is achieved using Intel's NCS2"
Oct 23, 2019
andre van calster commented on andre van calster's blog post improved inference speed on rpi3 using Intel's NCS1
"Thx Rana. There is a short wiki (on my git page, tab wiki) describing my project. I included a link to this wiki in the README.md file."
Oct 15, 2019
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