My first part of the project was coding. We needed a flight controller that would translate code commands into commands that the AR.drone would understand. We did this by utilizing the ARdrone_autonomy open source packages which did the translation part. All we needed to do was make a custom plugin that could understand the code that we were trying to use. It sounds a lot easier than it actually was. It took us about 2-3 weeks to finish this portion of the code. After we finished that part, things got a lot more slow. There wasn't much to do and the World Cup was airing so no one was really working, as you can see in the picture of us watching the USA vs Germany game.
After the World Cup was over we finished the collision_avoidance package and then began our testing, during which I found some major problems with the design of the drone...
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