This year, selected students took part in an interesting project focused on indoor flying with drones. Three students from the 3rd ER worked on their year-long papers, and a student from the 1st ER joined the project to learn the basics of drone movement in an indoor environment.
Flying indoors is specific in that conventional positioning systems cannot be used. The Crazyflie 2.1 drones therefore work with a light flux sensor, laser sensors and an inertial unit. This also exposes students to modern technologies and current challenges in the field of autonomous driving.
In Python, students solve problems such as finding a way out of a maze, avoiding a moving obstacle, or optimized traversal of an unknown corridor. These are tasks that have applications in, for example, drone movement in buildings, security checks or mapping an unknown space.
The students do not stop working on their projects even after they have handed in their year papers and continue to develop them. In addition, they also presented their skills during the open days, where their stand attracted many visitors.
Thanks to Milan Novák, PhD, PhD, from the Embedded Systems Laboratory of the Department of Computer Science at the Faculty of Science of the Jagiellonian University for his methodological guidance and technical support, to the school management for the acquisition of additional equipment and to my fellow mathematicians for their help in solving related tasks.
(Jan Petrasek)
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