On a super windy day at the Berkeley Marina, we demoed the ArduCopter FollowMe function (which is built in to the Mission Planner). That's me walking around with a laptop (with a $27 USB GPS dongle), and the copter follows me around like a pet robot bird. Then at the end I tell it to land itself, which it does.
Note that there's no RC control at all. This is all autonomous flight, with mission command issued with a point-and-click interface on a laptop. And in some serious wind, too!
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great stuff!
eduardo, your right, but it was 20 times the price, if not more, rubish gui, far too complicated hardware, they want last for long against ArduCopter and other similar fcs..
Hahahahahh fllow me hahaha
more than 2.5 year ago i do the same with mikrokopter without the need of notebook or celhphone because the mikrocopter have a hardware to send gps position.
Jason: Swarms for sure. Hope to demo that in the next two weeks.
Kevin: Yes! I was going to request it. Perfect use for a smartphone.
Great idea! I'll add it to Andropilot this weekend.
For android, i use this app, which sends the GPS Data of the phone (NMEA) over bluetooth to my notebook. But I only have used it with other applications (for tracking).
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.meowsbox.btgps&am...
I can't wait to try this. Nice job and glad to see we're moving towards building applications on top of the flight code. Perhaps swarms are next? ;)
Jason
I've been meaning to get to this, but an App for Android such as this may be able to transmit the data to the APM seamlessly over bluetooth (class one would get ya 100M) or TCP, allowing easy to implement Android following with software already available. I would be wary of the accuracy depending on your device.
I don't have an Android and having issues with the drivers on the USB bluetooth device a friend gave me, as well as trying to get rid of vibrations on my new frame that seem to be affecting any alt-hold mode. If I test it myself before someone else I'll post a video.
Very nice Chris ! Can you pls share the flight log of the APM and the Flight log of Mission Planner ?
FollowMe = check (sure need fine tuning...)
next... obstacle avoidance and collision detection.... go guys we are waiting for the future to arrive!
hehe nice job Chris and crew. We are getting there!
Dany
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