Conclusion
Project Conclusion section
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Project Conclusion section
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Engineering and robotics challenges have always been the main driver of the Atena Team, from which we seek to impact society through innovation. Last year, during CopterHack 2022 there was no shortage of challenges of this kind, and in them we grew and surpassed our limits, all to deliver the best possible project: Swarm in Blocks. All the motivation to facilitate such a complex task as the manipulation of drone swarms, even through block programming, has delighted us a lot and we hope it will delight all our users.
For the project, we implemented systems as described above, ranging from translations of drone formations to an FPV platform. All this development was designed to offer the best possible experience for those who use our platform, allowing it to be used for the most general applications in engineering and education. For this, we extensively use ROS and its offshoots, as well as other technologies and concepts such as Git, Blockly, WebDev, PX4, among others.
For us, the results were very expressive and positive, however, we believed that there is still room for improvement in the project, both considering the robustness of the swarm and the simplification of the usability of our platform. There was improvement in the collision avoidance system, implementation of more formations and tests on real Clovers are some of the points that we hope to develop in future opportunities.
With this, came Swarm in Blocks 2.0, which brought with it innovations that optimized the flight control of the clover and that could allow greater emotions in the handling of the drone, as well as focused on greater flight safety.
With this in mind, Swarm in Blocks 2.0 presents news for this year, such as the Web terminal, First Person View (FPV), Collision Avoidance, Clover UI and Swarm Station.
However, the work will not stop here. We aim to further improve our system and next steps include validating Collision Avoidance outside the simulated world and conducting performance testing with network communication solutions in order to optimize Real Swarm.
Finally, we thank the entire COEX team that made it possible to carry out CopterHack 2023 and all the support given during the competition. We are the Athena Team, creator of the Swarm in Blocks platform and thank you for all your attention!
