MTRX5700-Major

Dancing Drone Planning

Equipment we need:

• either one big drone or two small ones

• microphone

• controller hardware

• speakers

• rpi maybe

Things we want to achieve in order of priority

(1) make the drone move - and then try more complicated moves

(2) make it return back to its original starting position on the ground

(3) drone that moves in time with music - pre-loaded, steps are pre-planned

(a) not crash into shit

(b) pick out bars first

(c) if the drone is fast enough, try smaller chunks - choreography

(c) phrases - notes and stuff - might be hard

(4) drone that moves in time with live music - use the mic, do filtering

(5) movement/visual spectrum analyser

Modules

Laptop: music processing

• bar detection - plot the output in the time domain against the audio data

• BPM detection - plot the output in the time domain against the audio data

• mood dection, e.g. build up, drop, sad, happy

• optional: receive live audio input

Laptop: sending appropriate commands for the desired dance moves

• resolve any latency issues

• process the detected bars or beats into a sequence of organised dance moves

Drone: feedback controlled

• read sensor data

• correct for the drift

• ensure the desired dance move is executed properly

Drone: sick dance moves

• dance moves to achieve: spin, flip, bobbing, figure of 8, circling

• determine length of each dance move, and when the dance move would be suitable, e.g. bobbing is for beats, figure of 8 is for bars, spinning for build ups, etc...

• set the desired motion commands

Drone: powering up and down

• lift off at power up, return to same location at power down

Week 10 (20/05/17)

• get the drone to take off and land - must be controlled by laptop/rpi/keyboard/game controller/joystick and not from phone app --- ROLLED OVER

• upload a test program to run on the drone as embedded software --- DONE

• receive data from the sensors --- DON'T NEED ANYMORE

• be able to detect the beat in various genres of music --- ROLLED OVER

Week 11 (27/05/17)

• get the drone to take off and land by writing embedded software

• be able to detect bars in music

• be able to characterise sections in music

• execute a simple dance move