Tello Drone Human Tracking

Detect and track human using DJI Tello drone.

Features

• Mode 0 for manual drone control using keyboard
• Mode 1 for auto drone human tracking
• Switching target to follow when multiple human is detected in mode 1
• Keyboard input:
  • Common mode: t/l/v/m - take off/land/toggle video recording/toggle mode
  • Mode 0: w/s/a/d/left/right/up/down - up/down/ccw rotation/cw rotation/left/right/forward/backward
  • Mode 1: c/left/right/enter - toggle target switching panel/switch target id descendingly/switch target id ascendingly/confirm target
• Video recorded by drone will be saved as video.avi

Run Program

usage: main.py [-h] [-vsize VSIZE] [-th TH] [-tv TV] [-td TD] [-tr TR]

options:
  -h, --help    show this help message and exit
  -vsize VSIZE  Video size received from tello as "(width, height)"
  -th TH        Horizontal tracking
  -tv TV        Vertical tracking
  -td TD        Distance tracking
  -tr TR        Rotation tracking

e.g. python main.py 
e.g. python main.py -vsize "(600,400)" -th True -tr False

Requirements

• Download Anaconda and create an environment using command line list in requirement.txt or create similar environment using other ways (can refer environment.yml)
• DJI Tello drone

Reference

1. https://github.com/fvilmos/tello_object_tracking
2. https://github.com/damiafuentes/DJITelloPy
3. https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics
4. https://github.com/nwojke/deep_sort
5. https://github.com/computervisioneng/object-tracking-yolov8-deep-sort
6. ChatGPT