Flight test: follow solution

Recorded test flight

This video tests the follow control solution. The companion computer is running the follow program, and validates whether it can keep track of and follow a moving target during a non-simulated flight. The setup will be identical to the third test in section 4.4.2, without needing a wireless telemetry connection. The telemetry radio is, therefore, free to be used, for example, to track the vehicle’s path through the QGroundControl application on a secondary, offboard computer. The control application will be started with the following command:

dronecontrol follow -s /dev/serial0:921600

This video shows the process of getting the vehicle to takeoff (T key), activating offboard flight mode (O key), and starting movement tracking of the detected figure.