Guest Lecture at EPFL Aerial Robotics Course 2021

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This is the video ‘Getting Started on the Crazyflie®’ presentation that Bitcraze gave for 2021 ‘Aerial Robotics’ course as part of the Master in Master in Robotics Colloquium of EPFL. We were invited by Dario Floreano of the EPFL-LIS lab to introduce the students to the Crazyflie 2.1, the flow-deck and Multi ranger and the commander architecture.

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Recording

Content

  • 0:00:00 EPFL-lis introduction
  • 0:02:32 Crazyflie Introduction
  • 0:07:08 The Eco-system
  • 0:11:47 Communication with Crazyflie
  • 0:13:30 Hands-On: Connecting to CFclient
  • 0:17:10 Hardware Crazyflie
  • 0:19:24 Hands-On: CFclient logging
  • 0:21:15 Expansion decks (flow and multi)
  • 0:26:12 Hands-On: CFclient Flowdeck & Multiranger
  • 0:30:41 Software Modules Crazyflie
  • 0:34:29 Hands-On: Crazyflie flying on setpoints
  • 0:40:53 Conclusion first hour with questions
  • 0:43:26 Introduction second hour
  • 0:44:56 Types of commanders
  • 0:46:47 Explanation Motion commander
  • 0:49:09 Hands-On: Motion commander example cflib
  • 0:54:46 Demo: Push Demo from cflib
  • 0:58:00 Explanation High Level Commander
  • 1:02:51 Explanation App Layer
  • 1:05:05 Hands-on Push Demo App layer
  • 1:16:04 Case study Wall following
  • 1:18:46 Hands-on: Wall following demo app layer
  • 1:23:05 Conclusion second hour with questions