Part 2 Real AI HW
In this part 2 (Gdrive) a real CC (companion computer, PI4/Nano) is used (all other components and the world are simulated).
The goals for the tests in this section include
- (1) Fly sim copter (with sim FC),
- (2) stand in front of the (real) camera,
- (3) the (real) CC recognizes that I am human OR recognizes a guesture and
- (4) in response the (real) CC sends a MAVlink flight command to the sim FC (in this example to land the copter).
The first 4 sections of this Part B (Gdrive folder) describe how I got a few AI routines (I tried quite a few the first time around) running on the following platform HW:
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2.1 AI Ubuntu. Haarcascades and mediapipe gestures running on the Ubuntu (documents 2_B1.1,2,3, 23.0122-0131). I started using Ubuntu as the first test platform (instead of PI4/Nano) to avoid issues (such as camera drivers; PI4/Nano used their custom version of 18.04 Ubuntu).
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2.2 AI PI4. Haarcascades, TF-lite, and mediapipe face meshes (document 2_B2, 23.0119-0121).
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2.3 AI Jetson Nano. OpenCV, haarcascades (documents 2_B3_2a-1, 2_B3_3a, 23.0110-0118; 2_B3_2a describes Nvidia tutorials, for which I had trouble getting the camera other drivers setup).
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2.4 AI STM. Covers AI implmentations on STM hardware.
The last section covers:
- 2.5 AI study. This section includes mainly the hands-on demos I did when I first started out studying AI.
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The following diagrams shows where the CC fits in the drone physically and functionally ("flight board" = CC). The second diagram is from Intelligent Quads.
