Last year, Michelle Wang learned about drone theory, math, and computer vision at the Autonomous Air Racing program at MIT Beaverworks. She and her team programmed a drone as part of a class project at Beaverworks. When we spoke to her this year, she shared her most recent drone “work in progress,” and sent a video of the drone in action.
“I was lucky enough to get the drone to work with my code this week. The drone is trying to center the stop sign in the camera frame and hover. In this flight, however, the parameters weren’t tuned all that well and the wind kept blowing it off which is why it’s kind of oscillating. I took back manual control at the end (when it starts moving back really quickly), so I could land it in a drier area,” Michelle explains.
“Thank you so much for your support! I couldn’t do it without the GFF,” Michelle adds.
Keep up the good work, Michelle. We are so proud of you!