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Abstract: For this
research the AR Drone quadrotor by Parrot was reverse engineered to work with the
graphical programming environment LabVIEW in an attempt to create a low cost, easy to
use, entry level aerial robotics platform for students, educators, and researchers. The
result of this work is the AR Drone LabVIEW Toolkit. The Parrot AR Drone is a low-cost
consumer oriented quadrotor equip... read moreped with video cameras and WiFi communication. The AR
Drone LabVIEW Toolkit can maneuver the AR Drone, read data from its on-board sensors,
decode the video stream from the two cameras, and analyze the video frames with a
variety of included image processing algorithms. This thesis consist of a discussion of
how the AR Drone LabVIEW Toolkit functions followed by demonstrations of some
sophisticated autonomous behaviors programmed for the AR Drone and an evaluation of the
AR Drone LabVIEW Toolkit based on classroom testing and educator
testimonial.
Thesis (M.S.)--Tufts University,
2012.
Submitted to the Dept. of Mechanical
Engineering.
Advisor: Chris
Rogers.
Committee: Jason Rife, and Matthias
Scheutz.
Keywords: Robotics, Education, and
Mechanical engineering.read less
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