The Drone
Our drone was developed in association with Avular Eindhoven, a manufacturer of drones. Some parts are specifically designed for light shows.
Entrepreneural Experience Event at TMC
Last Thursday we attended the Entrepreneural Experience Event (E3) organized by TMC. It was a great opportunity to show people participating in high tech industries in their every day life what we are creating with the Firefly team. We had some interesting conversations with employees from TMC, entrepreneurs and technical students while networking downstairs.
Bowling activity
We all went for bowling last Thursday (March 15), it was a huge success! It built the team spirit and most of all it was great fun! Check out the pics.
New Animation Environment
We have a new animation environment! It allows to visualize our tests in the robot soccer field in a much more realistic manner.
Feedforward
Yesterday (March 21st) we added feedforward to our controller and it really improved tracking! We now can control very well the overshoot we had before!
Z Trajectory
Last week, we have been working on including the z coordinate in our trajectory. We now know how to include it in the trajectory and will continue to work on it this week.
Top View
This video shows the top view of one of the trajectories!
Our first demo!
Our first demo will be at 19th of April at TMC. We will fly one drone and have a screen showing the animation synchronized with two other drones.
New show concept
This is our current concept for the show! With respect to the previous one, we integrated LEDs and music. We also improved the motion.
The Three Trajectories with the Avular drones
Last week we made a lot of progress! We got the drone from our collaboration with Avular to move in the three trajectories The first video shows our drone moving in an eight motion. The second three videos show the drone moving in our three trajectories. Lastly there is a clip which compares camera and
Full trajetory with two ground robots
We got two ground robots to make the full trajectory! Check the video below to see the full trajectory in the dark, in which you can see the two ground robots through the attached LEDs.