- A fixed camera sees the flying area. Four ArUco markers on the floor at measured spots turn pixels into metres.
- A light marker on Faust's canopy gives its position and heading in every frame.
- Planned path, Faust's own estimate from its log and the camera's measurement on one plot, with the error at each waypoint and on landing.
Project Volans / Test and analysis / #10
Ground-truth tracker
An outside camera that measures where Faust really flew and where it really landed.
- Part of
- Project Volans
- Area
- Test and analysis
- Status
- Planned
- In the loop
- Return and land, Report
01 / What it does
The project
02 / Why
What it gives Volans
It turns "it flew the mission" into numbers: how far off it ended up, and how precise the landings on the Base are.
03 / Plan
Steps and targets
- 01Floor calibration with markersPlanned
- 02Drone marker trackingPlanned
- 03Sync with the flight logPlanned
- 04Error plots and landing scatterPlanned
Success looks like
- Position measured to a few centimetres on the floor
- Landing scatter plot over 20 landings
Planned project. This page will be updated with results once the work is done.