AR.Drone Flight Control For Linux

Introduction The Parrot [login to view URL] is a quadricopter that has 2 cameras and can be controlled over Wi-Fi with an iPhone ([login to view URL] ). Video from either of the cameras is streamed live to the iPhone. Flight control settings can be configured from the iPhone. [login to view URL] ([login to view URL] ) is the reference application to control the AR.Drone. It can be freely downloaded and installed from the Appstore. Parrot released an SDK and a Developer Guide ([login to view URL] ) that help developers with C source code examples so they can easily develop applications to control the [login to view URL] from any Wi-Fi device supporting ad-hoc connection mode. Two of the source code examples provided in the SDK are for Linux PC: sdk-demo and ardrone_navigation. They both provide developers with all communications functionalities source code to send AT commands, flight control settings configuration commands, receive navdata (sensor values, battery/flight state) and receive and decode video stream. Sdk-demo provides only basic control functionality from the keyboard and a gamepad, and does not display nor record the incoming video stream. ardrone_navigation provides a graphical user interface using gtk and displaying the decoded incoming video stream using sdl. They should be re-used for the project along with specified open source libraries (gtk, sdl, jstest, ffmpeg). The project objective is to provide a full functionality Linux interface for controlling the [login to view URL] over Wi-Fi with any USB input device, displaying the live video stream in full screen mode, recording the video in H.264, and configuring the flight control settings. The target platform is the Ubuntu distribution of Linux. List of deliverables and timeline Deliverable # Description Estimated time SDK Linux examples documentation (sdk-demo, ardrone_navigation), communication with an [login to view URL] 2 days 1 Full screen video display graphical interface 1 day 2 USB peripheral control devices 2 days 3 Real-time H.264 video recording 3 days 4 Flight control settings configuration 2 days Description of the deliverables Read attached file Developer package One [login to view URL] pack ([login to view URL], battery, charger, indoor and outdoor hulls)