gregora / Drone

Virtual drone interface for testing control functions

Virtual Drone

A virtual environment for testing drone control functions.

Showcase: https://youtu.be/FPFRh0Pat6M

Dependencies

• SFML library - sudo apt-get install libsfml-dev

Compiling on Linux

Run ./compile.sh.

Command line arguments

When running the compiled binary, you can use a few command line arguments:

• -record - record screen frame by frame into /frames/ folder
• -noscreen - only render offscreen (useful when recording)
• -fps - show FPS at the top right of the screen (wrong values when recording)

Drone class

The main feature of this project is the Drone class. It handles both drone physics and rendering to the screen. It can be found in src/.

Physics part

Variables:

• x,y - drone position in physics world
• speedx, speedy - drone speed in physics world
• angle - drone angle in physics world
• angular_velocity - drone's angular velocity in physics world
• inertia, mass, engine_dist, engine_pow - drone properties

Functions:

• Drone() - constructor
• physics() - do a physics calculation
• setPower() - set engine powers for physics calculations

Rendering part

Rendering is done using SFML library.

Functions:

• setColor() - set drone color
• draw() - inherited from Drawable class, can be called for drawing on screen/textures