e-Yantra Robotics Competition (eYRC) is a unique annual competition launched in the month of August every year for undergraduate students in science and engineering colleges, polytechnic. Selected teams are given a robotic kit complete with accessories and video tutorials to help them learn basic concepts in embedded systems and microcontroller programming. Abstracts of real world problems assigned as "themes" are then implemented by the teams using the robotic kits.
Learning modules include concepts in Aerial Robotics, ROS, Control Systems, Image Processing and Algorithm Development
For millennia, humans have been using land and water to navigate terrain.. Air travel has revolutionized many facets of our lives, one amongst which is identifying and providing relief or rescuing fellow humans and their property when their safety is threatened in disasters.
Advances in materials and electronics have led to a boom in portable aerial robots. These can be either user operated or autonomous, with major research going on in enhancing their autonomous capabilities. These robots, called Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs) can be classified as multirotors, tiltrotors, helicopters, fixed-wing etc.
Quadcopters, a variety of multirotor aircraft are the most ubiquitous amongst these, and in the recent Western India floods of 2019, they have been used with great success, by hobbyists, professional photographers and others to survey and assess the damage to life and property, and helping to coordinate search and rescue operations. Their actions and stories are inspiring and we urge you to look them up on the internet. So, what could be a step-up to these systems? At present, they are limited in range, size and payload. Autonomous light helicopters of course! Manned-light helicopters are widely used in rescue situations, making them autonomous and ubiquitous will surely be a concrete step forward in this regard.
In eYRC 2019-20 we explore an abstracted version of this disaster scenario, using a micro-quadcopter which operates autonomously to perform search and rescue operations. In the process you will learn concepts in control systems, image processing and algorithm development. Credit: Eyantra
Whole competition is divided into two stage. First stage1 contain Task0 and Task1 and stage2 conatin Task2,Task3,Tssk4 and Task5.
Stage1 Task1 Video:-https://youtu.be/pWJ98NIzOdk
Stage1 Task2 Video:-https://youtu.be/0VOhlZp05uU__
Stage2 Task3.1 Video:-https://youtu.be/y4iRJL_CBTw__
Stage2 Task3.2 Video:- https://youtu.be/AWCe_X22__E__
Stage2 Task4 Video:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWCe_X22__E&feature=youtu.be__
Stage2 Final Simulation :-
This task involves installing the required software(Gazebo and ROS) to complete all future tasks. Install Linux, Gazebo and ROS along with various libraries and perform a simple task associated with them.
This task contain basic learning of ROS concept like
1. what is ROS Topic?
2. How to write to ROS Topic ?
3. How to write to ROS Nodes ?
4. What is ROS subscriber and publisher ?5.How to build ROS package ?
6. What is Bag File and use of Bag file?
We are given challenge to show x,y,z co-ordinate of Drone with respect to virtual camera which are on the top of Drone in Gazebo.Position of Drone is calculated with the help of Whycon Marker
See the task Video:-https://youtu.be/pWJ98NIzOdk
( Many script were written by eYRC we only made changes according to challenge)
This task divided into two part part1 and part2. In part1 we had provided many pdf for help. Task1 was to made a PID script for Drone to fly it to specific co-ordinate
See the task Video:-https://youtu.be/0VOhlZp05uU