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The AR.Drone is a remote-control quadricopter drone designed by French company Parrot. This groundbreaking drone is designed as recreational equipment suitable for young and older and combines the best of many worlds, including modeling, video gaming, and augmented reality. AR.Drone can be used both indoors and outdoors and connects by Wifi. It is controlled from a smartphone (iPhone, Android, Nokia, Samsung ...) and also has some autopilot features to help flying the drone. AR. Drone is very easy to pilot.
AR. Drone is equipped with internal sensors as well as two external cameras (front and below) that send a video stream in real time to the smartphone for remote monitoring or for recording.
Finally, several applications for smartphone using augmented reality allow you to use the AR. Drone drone in a real race or in a virtual one.
The technical specifications of the AR.Drone are as follows :
The AR. Drone has external cameras to capture and to stream live video to the piloting device. The first camera is placed on the front of the drone (front camera) and the second on the bottom for pictures of the ground (vertical camera). The technical characteristics of these cameras are as follows:
Front camera:
Vertical camera:
An ultrasound-based altimeter:
The AR. Drone has also internal sensors to help the user piloting the drone and to get a better flying experience. These sensors are sensors that are typically found in autopilot:
The autopilot of the AR.Drone facilitates takeoff and landing. After takeoff, autopilot stabilizes the AR.Drone at an 80-centimeter altitude. When you remove your finger from the iPhone/iPod touch, the autopilot function automatically puts the AR.Drone into stationary flight. Lost connection with the AR.Drone? Autopilot takes over again and stabilizes the device before attempting a soft and safe landing.
The hulls are made of very resistant injected expanded polypropylene (EPP). Two hulls are delivered by default with the AR. Drone. A full hull shield for indoor flights and a more aerodynamic hull made for outdoor flights.
The box of the AR.Drone contains:
AR. Drone is easily repaired and many parts are available for sale on this website.
The AR. Drone is mainly controllable from Iphone, Ipad and Ipod Touch. It is also possible to control the AR. Drone from a PC running Linux and equipped with a joystick. Finally, applications for smartphone such as Nokia N8 / C7 / E7 Symbian, Android or Bada Wave Samsung are also available.
The main softwares for Apple devices are:
The 4 applications above are available for Iphone but only AR.Race and AR.free Flight are available for Ipad.
Many third-party applications are also available. Visit the iTunes Store and type AR.Drone in the search engines to list them all.
An SDK (software development kit is available to allow you to create your own virtual reality applications with the AR. Drone. The developer community is very active. To know more, go to https://projects.ardrone.org