This repo was created to do some PoCs to place all toghrther: Go, DJI Tello drone, gobot and gocv
This is a simple program that just let the Tello drone detect a face and follow it automatically. You can also control the Tello drone from the keyboard Stack:
- OpenCV (via gocv) and caffe (for face detection)
- https://gobot.io/documentation/platforms/keyboard/
- https://gobot.io/documentation/platforms/tello/
- ffmpeg for video compression
Before starting, you must have installed:
- ffmpeg
- OpenCV: it can be installed by installing gocv https://gocv.io/getting-started/
First, connect to the drone's Wi-Fi network from your computer. It will be named something like "TELLO-XXXXXX".
Then, run the program:
go run ./facetracking/facetracking.go
Once program is started it, opens a window where video from the Tello drone will be streamed.
It is also listening for any key pressed on the console to control the drone:
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| 1 | take off |
| 2 | take off by throwing it up |
| Q | land |
| ⬅ | rotate left |
| ➡ | rotate right |
| ⬇ | go down |
| ⬆︎️ | go up |
| W | forward |
| S | Backward |
| A | Left |
| D | Right |
| T | Start / Stop face tracking |
| B | Battery indicator |
| X | Stats (flight data) |
| Spacebar | Hover |
| ESC | Quit Program |
So, you need to:
- run the program
- then take off (
1or2) - put your face in front of the Tello camera (you should see a rectangle in the video window)
- then start tracking (
T) - Move yourself so the drone can follow you (consider slow movements as this program is not optimized yet to support very fast movements)
- Once you are done, then press
Tagain to let the drone stop tracking
Thanks to @deadprogram for the examples provided Also this [blogpost](was helpful https://tellopilots.com/threads/face-tracking-with-tello-and-gocv.374/) was helpful