Hello,
I am currently using a Tello Edu drone for a project. My initial idea was to have the drone autonomously fly up and hover in the air and immediately starts looking for an object I trained it to look for. When its found the drone will fly towards it and align itself on top of it and slowly hover down on it. With a magnetic tether I installed, when close enough the payload will clip onto the tether via the magnet and the drone can fly up and look for the landing zone.
However, I just realised that the drone's camera does not point downwards, thus I can't really detect something stationary on the ground. So I looked into the mission pads and was wondering is it possible to have the payload sit on top of a mission pad and have the drone detect the mission pad using the IR blaster and have it descend onto the pad and pulling the payload up? Mimicking the process mentioned above?
Any feedback is helpful, so please do give me your opinions.
Thankyou!
P.S the magnetic tether and payload were made out of lego, string and magnets as seen in the attached photo.
I am currently using a Tello Edu drone for a project. My initial idea was to have the drone autonomously fly up and hover in the air and immediately starts looking for an object I trained it to look for. When its found the drone will fly towards it and align itself on top of it and slowly hover down on it. With a magnetic tether I installed, when close enough the payload will clip onto the tether via the magnet and the drone can fly up and look for the landing zone.
However, I just realised that the drone's camera does not point downwards, thus I can't really detect something stationary on the ground. So I looked into the mission pads and was wondering is it possible to have the payload sit on top of a mission pad and have the drone detect the mission pad using the IR blaster and have it descend onto the pad and pulling the payload up? Mimicking the process mentioned above?
Any feedback is helpful, so please do give me your opinions.
Thankyou!
P.S the magnetic tether and payload were made out of lego, string and magnets as seen in the attached photo.