Human Follower Drone

Overview

This project covered perception, control and autonomy in one loop. A camera streams frames to a companion computer, computer vision tracks the person, and that signal drives the flight stack so the drone holds a fixed distance from its target.

My role

ROS pipeline, tracking logic and simulation flow.

Highlights

• Ran in ArduPilot SITL and Gazebo with MAVROS in the loop
• Tracked the target with OpenCV, CvZone and MediaPipe pose landmarks
• Kept a fixed follow distance from the person being tracked