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# Title Team Members TA Documents Sponsor
64 FPV Racing Drone
 Eli O'Malley
Griffin Descant
Hunter Baisden
 Tianxiang Zheng design_document1.pdf
final_paper1.pdf
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presentation1.pdf
proposal1.pdf
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# FPV Racing Drone

Team members:
- Elias O'Malley (eliasco2)
- Hunter Baisden (baisden2)
- Griffin Descant (descant2)

# Problem
FPV Racing drones are usually very large and fast and thus require a large space. The Center for Autonomy Labs has a flying arena for lightweight drones such as the Crazyflie. However, the Crazyflie do not have a first person view.

# Solution
We propose to develop a small, lightweight FPV system for the Crazyflie in order to facilitate lightweight, small-space drone racing.

# Solution Components
## Power system
The system will draw power from the Crazyflie and use regulators to power each of the subsystems.

## Camera
A lightweight camera will be used to capture video from the drone.

## Transmitter/Receiver
A video transmitter on the drone will stream the video from the camera to a receiver connected to the headset.

## Video Processor
Microprocessors on the drone and at the receiving end will convert the camera data for transmitting and the received data back to video for the headset.

## IF LED Array
In order to track the location of the drone for the purpose of racing analytics, an infrared LED array will be attached to the drone to display a programmable pattern. This would allow the simultaneous tracking and differentiation of multiple drones in the future. This will be tracked using the labs Vicon motion tracking system.

# Criterion for Success
1 – The Vicon motion system should successfully track the drone using the IF LED array.

2 - The headset should receive a video stream of at least 30Hz.

3 – The Crazyflie should be able to maintain flight for 3 mins with the system running.

Cypress Robot Kit

Todd Nguyen, Byung Joo Park, Alvin Wu

Cypress Robot Kit

Featured Project

Cypress is looking to develop a robotic kit with the purpose of interesting the maker community in the PSOC and its potential. We will be developing a shield that will attach to a PSoC board that will interface to our motors and sensors. To make the shield, we will design our own PCB that will mount on the PSoC directly. The end product will be a remote controlled rover-like robot (through bluetooth) with sensors to achieve line following and obstacle avoidance.

The modules that we will implement:

- Motor Control: H-bridge and PWM control

- Bluetooth Control: Serial communication with PSoC BLE Module, and phone application

- Line Following System: IR sensors

- Obstacle Avoidance System: Ultrasonic sensor

Cypress wishes to use as many off-the-shelf products as possible in order to achieve a “kit-able” design for hobbyists. Building the robot will be a plug-and-play experience so that users can focus on exploring the capabilities of the PSoC.

Our robot will offer three modes which can be toggled through the app: a line following mode, an obstacle-avoiding mode, and a manual-control mode. In the manual-control mode, one will be able to control the motors with the app. In autonomous modes, the robot will be controlled based off of the input from the sensors.