rbe595_p2b

Project 2b Fall 23 Aerial Robotics

Overview:

You are provided a Jetson Orin Nano for running perception and motion planning algorithms. The motion commands are sent from Jetson to DJI Tello drone connected over WIFI.

Instructions:

1. Jetson Orin Nano - Ubuntu Shell access without internet/ethernet/wifi setup

   • Connect the provided DC power adapter to Jetson Orin Nano and wait for a minute to boot up.

   • Connect a USB-C cable from host PC and Jetson Orin Nano. Use a serial terminal like gtkterm to gain shell access into Jetson.

   • Login using the user name and password (pasted on the Jetson board).

2. Jetson Orin Nano - Internet access

   With GUI:

   • Connect monitor, keyboard and mouse to Jetson.
   • Power up the unit and login.
   • Connect to WPI-Open and follow these instructions for setting up internet.

   Without GUI:

   • Use a wifi hotspot with some known password
   • Once you have shell access over USB, follow this page for setting wifi up

3. Jetson Orin Nano - Software Setup

   • Install tensorflow and (or) pytorch on Jetson board
   • Get SSH access up and running
   • You may additionally want to setup vscode-server for programming Jetson from host machine
   • Create a private repository on GitHub for storing your project codes. In case, the SSD on Jetson crashes, you may lose your code otherwise.

4. Tello Setup

   • Remove the propellers from Tello
   • Insert the battery and press the power button
   • You will see a open wifi hotspot with a unique ssid name (pasted on Tello drone)
   • Insert the additional wifi dongle into Jetson
   • Connect to the Tello's wifi hotspot using the wifi dongle. You will still have internet access in Jetson (from the inbuilt wifi antenna)
   • Clone this repository on Jetson
   • Install DJItelloPy library
   • $python tello_sample.py
   • Check the outputs folder, make sure you are getting images from the drone
   • Attach the propellers and move on to flight testing