Hello to the awesome Bitcraze community!
My name is Joseph La Delfa, I started in December last year as an industrial postdoc at Bitcraze. This means I work across Bitcraze HQ in Malmö and the division of Robotics Perception and Learning at KTH in Stockholm. I have been designing and researching interactions that involve bodily control of drones for a few years now.
Here at Bitcraze I will be using lighthouse decks on the body to control Crazyflie/s, with the aim to produce a wearable sensor that integrates into the Bitcraze ecosystem. The lighthouse positioning system is showing great potential for this application as it gives relatively clean and high-fidelity positional data. Plus now that more than two base stations can be used, we can potentially track the deck from top down and bottom up.
This research is a continuation of my PhD thesis, where I designed drone interactions that respond differently to different people, and advocated for a human-drone relationship that evolves over time. Ultimately I hope to demonstrate new use cases for the Crazyflie and expand the already impressive community of researchers who use Bitcraze products!
This industrial postdoc is funded by the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), and you can find out more about my work at www.cafeciaojoe.com :D
Hi Joseph,
This sounds very interesting because it is closely related to my work!
One of my products is Humanoid Control (https://humanoidcontrol.com/) which is a (Unity) package for controlling avatars through body tracking technology. One of these is of course Vive Trackers.
This year I actually started working to make the Bitcraze lighthouse deck a generic solution which can be used for body tracking for also for other (robot) tracking solutions. (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5TXD0Td-BQ). Of course the results of this is open source (https://gitlab.passervr.com/passer/arduino/lighthouse-tracker). Note that this is still work in progress.
Perhaps we can combine our efforts?
Cheers,
Pascal.
Hey Pascal!
I watched your video and it sure seems we do have some aligned interest! Let’s chat about this!
I sent you a message through your website.
Cheers
Joe