Auto-Landing Meeting #1 2023-06-03

Representation of Drone

• Given pitch, yaw roll

• Represent as vector or point

  • Vector - Tells us orientation

    • Cannot output one angle probably

  • Point - Doesn’t tell us about orientation of drone (what if you land upside down lmfaoo)

Info Needed

• Input

  • birds-eye view of space with landing pad - can assume there will always be an

    • camera is on bottom - bounding box will be distorted if angle is tilted, so we should ideally try to keep the drone at 90 degrees

  • need to essentially center drone over landing pad and descend

  • assume we have basically any variables we want (e.g. location of drone, landing, etc.)

  • assume ideal situation (i.e. no turbulence, etc.) and work from there

• Output

  • Center drone on landing pad

  • send movement commands

    • set of movement commands is: (rotate on given axis, ascend/descend, move forward/back)

• Performance

  • main indicator is smoothness of landing

  • no time limit