The tum_ardrone Robot Operating System (ROS) package allows to let the Parrot AR.Drone fly autonomously, using PTAM-based, visual navigation. The package repository is currently maintained by Jakob Engel.
The documentation and repository can be found on the ROS wiki pages:
http://www.ros.org/wiki/tum_ardrone.
The methods used are detailed further in the corresponding publications:
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Journal Articles
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2014
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[] |  | Scale-Aware Navigation of a Low-Cost Quadrocopter with a Monocular Camera (J. Engel, J. Sturm and D. Cremers), In Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS), volume 62, 2014.
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Conference and Workshop Papers
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2012
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[] |  | Accurate Figure Flying with a Quadrocopter Using Onboard Visual and Inertial Sensing (J. Engel, J. Sturm and D. Cremers), In Proc. of the Workshop on Visual Control of Mobile Robots (ViCoMoR) at the IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems (IROS), 2012.
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[] |  | Camera-Based Navigation of a Low-Cost Quadrocopter (J. Engel, J. Sturm and D. Cremers), In Proc. of the International Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems (IROS), 2012.
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Other Publications
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2011
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[] |  | Autonomous Camera-Based Navigation of a Quadrocopter (J. Engel), Master's thesis, Technical University Munich, 2011.
Distinguished with the SIEMENS award for best Master's Thesis 2012 |