Alternatives for programming a low-cost UAV in robotics

Abstract

The aim of this paper are to present different alternatives to program a commercially available ffying platform, and to discuss what we consider more convenient to be used by our under-graduate students in a regular robotics course to teach them basic vision based control. Due to the background of our students, we will focus more on the description of the software application interface, than on the hardware, although we will describe also both. We also will describe