08 · MATLAB MiniDrone

Following a line from the air

A vision-guided drone that followed a marked course and placed third at the IIT Kanpur competition.

Role

Team member · perception & controls

Year

Earlier

Small quadcopter used for the MATLAB MiniDrone competition

In one sentence

The drone earned second runner-up at the MATLAB MiniDrone Competition.

01 · The problem

Why this mattered

The vehicle had to extract a track from a live camera feed while keeping flight stable enough to act on it.

02 · My work

From idea to system

Our team combined image morphology with a carefully tuned PID loop for real-time course following.

03 · The result

What moved

The drone earned second runner-up at the MATLAB MiniDrone Competition.

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