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Extended NVIDIA Redtail project for Arducopter

Autonomous visual navigation components for drones using deep learning. This project is based on the original Redtail project by Nvidia see wiki and includes the changes needed to make it run with the Arducopter flightcontroller firmware based on the work of https://github.com/ArduPilot/redtail. It also incorporates the migration of all project components to Jetpack 4.2.2 and ROS Melodic plus a number of enhancements for video streaming, ROS node control, YOLO, and so on.

Video: https://youtu.be/aiHJ1yuJRVU

This project contains deep neural networks, computer vision and control code, hardware instructions and other artifacts that allow users to build a drone which can autonomously navigate through highly unstructured environments like forest trails, sidewalks, etc. The original Nvidia TrailNet DNN for visual navigation is running on NVIDIA's Jetson embedded platform.

The project also contains Stereo DNN models and runtime which allow to estimate depth from a ZED stereo camera on NVIDIA platforms.

For further whitepapers and demos please refer to the original Nvidia documentation at: https://github.com/NVIDIA-AI-IOT/redtail

<b>For installation, test and flight instructions please see the wiki in this git: https://github.com/mtbsteve/redtail/wiki </b>

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