Intro to Robotics Project 2

Due: In class demo during class April  3rd with papers due the next class.

Overview and Objective:

You're group will program a Tello robot to find and fly to a brightly colored object.

Project Details:

Write a program which will run on your laptop and connect and control the tello drone

• I will place the tello somewhere on one of the tables in the lab facing an arbitrary direction
• There will be a brightly colored cylinder somewhere in the room (not hidden)
• Your program needs ot have the robot
• fly
• find the cylinder
• go to the cylinder
• report the cylinder found
• land near* the cylinder facing that cylinder.
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*let's define near as within a foot and a half

The cylinder looks like this:

A few useful notes

• Don't forget the charge on your robot. If you ever start to see weird behavior running the same program that used to work, try a fresh charge.

• don't forget the robot is afraid of the dark - don't scare it make it land
• using open cv to grab a color
  

The Project report

The project report is a report of what you tried to do, what you did, what you learned and what you accomplished. To make my correcting easier, let me give you guidelines on what I'd like to see in it. Make sure you use section headings to make each section easy to find.

• Introduction

  • this is where you explain the problem you were trying to solve and why it is relevant

• Robot design

  • Here tell me what sort of robot you designed (in hardware). Tell me what worked and what did not work. Discuss what you learned  based on what worked and what did not.

• Software design

  • Here discuss what sort of control program you built. Again tell me what worked and what did not. Discuss what you learned about robot control software from your experience. Discuss your approach and its relevance to both the current task at hand and the general problem of robots acting in the world. 

  • Include a diagram of your behaviors and their interactions.

• Evaluate your robot

  • Evaluate your robots suitability for the task and the environment include your robot's actual performance in the demo. How well would your robot perform in other environments?

• Concluding discussion

  • Summarize what you learned. Consider the following target audience: next year's robotics students. In this section, summarize from the preceding sections all of the worthwhile dos and don'ts that you discovered in doing this lab. It is not really relevant that your robot did really great unless you tell the reader why. Think about what you would have liked to know when you first saw this lab, and if you have any insights after doing the lab, share them here.