Tello - follow me

[Akhivis]

Ran a simple object detection, track and follow using python code on my laptop.
The drone is connected to the laptop over wifi.
I process each frame for detecting pedestrian, filter by color and then track the largest object detected.
Based on the target size in the frame, a command for *up*, *down*, *left*, *right*, *forward*, *back* , is sent to the drone.
One could send a while lot of commands including specific yaw and rotate angles etc but I have not yet reached there as I am afraid I might crash the drone.
The drone follows every 5th frame as it needs some time before sending/receiving a message to the drone

 

[martinpi]

Cool!
You are making a real drone from the quadrocopter. Or a flying robot (by the definition that a robot must be able to detect its surroundings and react to it).

How do you get the video on the laptop? Sorry, this is a beginner's question. So far I successfully tried the SDK Python example and was able to move the tello around.
Greetings, Martin