D-ALS stands for Drone-Assisted Landing System. First of all this is a University Project under the supervision of Angelos Antonopoulos and Theofilos Chanialakis, TUC, Chania, Crete. In this project we try to make a quad-copter(Drone) land on its own just by staring a base thru a fixed camera.
By using OpenCV 2.4.10 every frame from our drone-mounted camera is being processed in order to be determined the location and the orientation of the base.
#The Base The base will be represented as three points in a Γ pattern (like QR Contours: Top,Right,Bottom). Those points' shape should be spherical show that they are multi-angle recognisable. Something like orange ping-pong ball will do the trick.
#System overview The System will be consisted of: -Camera -RPi2 -AVR MCU -Flight Controller -RC PWM Receiver
Our application is designed to run on a Raspberry Pi 2 which will be mounted on a quad-copter. By utilizing the onboard Serial Connection of the RPi2, the RPi will be able to send info to a AVR MCU.