During this trip we had mechatronic courses about piloting drones. Each group choose their own application for their drones, from vocal steering to drone camera tracking. We programmed them in C#, a new thing for us and an opportunity to learn this language. First of all, before beginning programming drones, we had to learn C#. In this optic we followed C# courses in english with the head of the mechatronical department of UWE. In those courses we learned how to programm/debug basics to hard fonctions in C#.
Right after completing this course, we finally managed to programm drones.
To do this we were splited in groups of four and each groups had the same drone, a Parrot AR DRONE 2.0.
Those courses were animated by two students who were studying mechatronic in UWE. Their role was two help and guide us in our project in order to make our drones fly by using camera tracking or vocal steering.
Some of us even programmed their drones by making them following a red line on the floor during the flight, others by making him following a student who were wearing a red cap and in the end a group used to give vocal o rders to their drone and it executed some figures.
We were using different rooms in order to make them fly freely and don’t bother the other groups in their work.
We also made some groups meeting in order to know if some of us were facing difficulties and if they needed help from other groups.
In the end every groups managed to make their drones fly by exploring different ways and each groups had to make a presentation in front of UWE’s head of the Mechatronic department and the two mechatronic students who were helping us all along the project.
In the end, the benefits from those courses was C# programming, team work (spirit), a lot of fun and learning an other langage through this project.
12/11/2018