Tello Autonomous Drone

Tello Autonomous Drone lets you watch video stream from your Tello drone and control the drone with the keyboard.

In 🤖 autonomous mode, the drone can follow a person with zero human assistance. No matter where a person is heading, Tello will see they and will keep following.

All that works in the web browser. You can even share the video stream over the local network.

It is possible by combining 🦾 superpowers of:

• FFmpeg
• Medooze Media Server
• TensorFlow.js

Demo

Click to play:

Features

🤖 Autonomous mode 🔥

The drone can detect and autonomously follow people by leveraging TensorFlow.js MoveNet model.

In flight, press Space to toggle Autonomous mode.

WARNING: Ensure you have enough space around.

📺 Drone video stream

You can see the video stream from the drone in the browser, in real-time.

We use WebRTC to obtain the minimal latency possible.

📼 Video recording

Video feed from the drone can be recorded into a local file to be watched and shared later.

Press Tab to toggle recording.

📡 Telemetry

Important drone telemetry such as current height and battery level are displayed on top of the video stream for pilot convenience.

⌨️ Keyboard conrol

You can control the drone with the keyboard. Click on the keyboard icon to see all available key mappings.

🔈 Audio notifications

Make sure to turn your speakers on. Many drone actions are announced out loud, like in sci-fi movies. It is just so fun.

Quickstart

Step 0. Ensure you have FFmpeg installed.

The project relies on FFmpeg to transform raw H.264 stream from the drone into WebRTC consumable RTP packets.

Step 1. Clone the repo, cd into the project directory, and install project dependencies:

npm install

Step 2. Connect Wifi to your Tello.

Then start the project:

npm start

Step 3. Head over http://localhost:3000

Author

Alex Bakoushin

License

MIT