2016-2017 Senior Project - Dancing Drones
Drones are much easier controlled when following instructions given by preset calculated paths rather than a human’s hands on a controller. This project aims to allow a user to create paths for their drones to follow, while abstracting out the implementation of calculating and turning a user’s desired path into actual instructions for a drone to execute in the real world. Particularly in terms of our stakeholder, the user will be a choreographer and the drone’s path will execute “dance” moves.
The term “Dancing Drones” encapsulates many different branches. The codebase, which is what this senior design project consists of, is also known as “Tansa.” The other branch of Dancing Drones is the actual human dancers who will be performing a piece with the Parsons Project.
We work alongside another senior design team in the Engineering school whose goals are to maintain 6 functional drones and make necessary changes to drone design. We also work alongside Dennis Shatnov and Adam Cho who started this project working with the Parsons Project before this senior design team was formed.
Dancing Drones will be demonstrated to the public December 7-11, 2016. At this point, there will be no graphical user interface but the functionality of sending “choreographies” to users should be fully functional.
