Path planning experiment on Bebop2 Drone

The Bebop2 drone is controlled by the follow-the-carrot category to follow the planned path in a windy outdoor environment.

Constrained by the hardware, the drone can only be controlled via WIFI and works at a slow control rate.

Its localization is realized based on the IMU and ultrasonic altimeter because the accuracy of GPS is unsatisfactory.

However, the experiment result is still sufficient to support the validity of our path planning algorithm which is mainly concerned in our present researches.

We'd like to have a deeper study on the perception, decision-making and control of autonomous robots in our next work.