Video Blog

Short videos documenting some of our projects and test flights are posted below. Students in the UAV Robotics Lab at the College of Charleston first learn how to manually pilot drones before learning about the automated flying features that are shown in this video. Once students have mastered the built-in features, the real fun begins as we try to develop novel new automated flying features for drones using Android or iOS SDKs.

Erin Puckette, research assistant in the The College of Charleston’s UAV Robotics Lab in the Computer Science department, writes an application which autonomously flies a DJI Phantom 4 drone in a vertical grid pattern. This system can be used to capture images of a vertical structure and re-construct a 3D model or simple mosaic of the surface.

Megan Landau, research assistant in the UAV Robotics lab, demonstrates speech recognition app on the DJI Phantom 4 drone. The drone travels a specified distance in either North, South, East, or West directions. It is also now capability simply moving up, down, left or right on command.

Megan Landau, research assistant in the UAV Robotics lab, demonstrates speech recognition app on the DJI Phantom 4 drone. The drone executes a mission (a series of several commands) after being told to do so.

Megan Landau, research assistant in the UAV Robotics lab, demonstrates speech recognition app on the DJI Phantom 4 drone.

Megan Landau, research assistant in the UAV Robotics lab, demonstrates speech recognition app on a made-from-scratch drone simulator. Next goal is to integrate this front end system with the actual drone.

 

Quick demonstration of built-in DJI Phantom 4 software.

 

Some aerial footage of Bishop England High School on Daniel Island taken as we learn to pilot our new drone.

 

The lab’s new DJI Phantom 4 takes first ever video!

 

The lab’s new DJI Phantom 4 takes first ever flight!

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