Copter Hack 2017

On July 28 – 30, 2017, Copter Express held a hackathon named "Copter Hack 2017", where the objective was to program a Clover to dance-fly autonomously to random music.

The team "Pangolins" became the winners.

Video lectures are available at https://copterexpress.timepad.ru/event/510375/.

Modules

• Navigation in the marker field and simplified copter control: https://github.com/CopterExpress/marker_navigator (installed on the flash drive)

• ROS module for communication with the music server https://github.com/CopterExpress/copter_hack_music (installed on a flash drive)

• the source of the music server https://github.com/CopterExpress/copter_hack_music_server

Viewing video from the camera

To run on Raspberry:

rosrun web_video_server web_video_server

In the browser, open webpage http://<ip raspberry>:8080.

Attention: Video stream distribution greatly reduces the performance of marker recognition for the flight.

SSID Wi-Fi

To change the SSID of distributed Wi-Fi you should change the SSID parameter in any way in file/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf.

The list of recognized markers

rostopic echo /marker_data

Helpful articles

• Copter setup

• Flight modes

• MAVRos package

• A good introductory article: https://habrahabr.ru/post/227425/

• Signals used in drones: https://geektimes.ru/post/258186/

• A good article about PIDs: https://habrahabr.ru/company/technoworks/blog/216437/

• Video lectures are available at https://copterexpress.timepad.ru/event/510375/.

• Aubio, a library for sound (music) analysis

• Packages for Python for working with music: https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonInMusic