travelerdawg
Multi-rotor Joker
Hello everyone,
I am a senior Computer Engineer at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. I have been approved by my professor to present a project to the class and university for consideration.
This project involves developing a camera base with the capabilities of tracking a race drone through a portion of a race course. The idea is to build multiple bases to provide producers the means to have another perspective of the drones as they traverse the race course. The reason I am calling this a camera base is that it should be able to accommodate multiple cameras up to a certain size and weight (GoPro, Xiaomi, RunCam, Cannon Vixia, Sony Handycam).
My end goal is to increase the enjoyment for spectators of drone racing. We have the FPV view and the broad angle of the camera on the sidelines. However, the camera on the sidelines has a hard time tracking the drones as it is human operated and the shots I would like to get would put a camera operator in too much danger to be practical.
What am I looking for from the community? I have attempted to contact flitetest directly and have not been successful. I have attempted to contact MultiGP and have not been successful. I am hoping that by posting on the forums that I can start a dialogue with somebody at flitetest and with the flitetest community in order to receive advice and ideas on what spectators of the sport would like to see. Also, sponsors would be greatly appreciated and handled through the university.
Thank you for your time and I hope that I have interested some of you in supporting this senior design project. I have already received support from my fellow classmates in the way of requests to join my team and I hope you will do the same. If there is interest from the community, I will keep the community updated with regular status updates.
Sincerely,
Travelerdawg
I am a senior Computer Engineer at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. I have been approved by my professor to present a project to the class and university for consideration.
This project involves developing a camera base with the capabilities of tracking a race drone through a portion of a race course. The idea is to build multiple bases to provide producers the means to have another perspective of the drones as they traverse the race course. The reason I am calling this a camera base is that it should be able to accommodate multiple cameras up to a certain size and weight (GoPro, Xiaomi, RunCam, Cannon Vixia, Sony Handycam).
My end goal is to increase the enjoyment for spectators of drone racing. We have the FPV view and the broad angle of the camera on the sidelines. However, the camera on the sidelines has a hard time tracking the drones as it is human operated and the shots I would like to get would put a camera operator in too much danger to be practical.
What am I looking for from the community? I have attempted to contact flitetest directly and have not been successful. I have attempted to contact MultiGP and have not been successful. I am hoping that by posting on the forums that I can start a dialogue with somebody at flitetest and with the flitetest community in order to receive advice and ideas on what spectators of the sport would like to see. Also, sponsors would be greatly appreciated and handled through the university.
Thank you for your time and I hope that I have interested some of you in supporting this senior design project. I have already received support from my fellow classmates in the way of requests to join my team and I hope you will do the same. If there is interest from the community, I will keep the community updated with regular status updates.
Sincerely,
Travelerdawg
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