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