Drone Control via Alexa

#1

Post by pansinghkoder » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 7:04 PM UTC

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#2

Post by jjwiseman » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 7:50 PM UTC

I did something similar about six years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhBa11gdbeU

I used a (Python) natural language parser of my own creation (this was before intent classification was a big thing), Nuance speech recognition, and a javascript (node) interface to the AR.Drone.

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#3

Post by kossae » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 7:56 PM UTC

This seems oh-so-dangerous given the current state of NLP, but very cool project! :)

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#4

Post by pansinghkoder » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 8:11 PM UTC

kossae wrote: post #3

This seems oh-so-dangerous given the current state of NLP, but very cool project! :)

Thanks! I saw the fear in my Director's eyes while showcasing when the drone was hovering ~3 feet away.

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#5

Post by waterside81 » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 8:16 PM UTC

jjwiseman wrote: post #2

I did something similar about six years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhBa11gdbeU I used a (Python) natural language parser of my own creation (this was before intent classification was a big thing), Nuance speech recognition, and a javascript (node) interface to the AR.Drone.

Haha- the drone not landing when you told it to is basically the beginning of every sci-fi movie where the robots turn on the people.

Great job.

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Post by pansinghkoder » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 8:19 PM UTC

waterside81 wrote: post #5

jjwiseman wrote: post #2

I did something similar about six years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhBa11gdbeU I used a (Python) natural language parser of my own creation (this was before intent classification was a big thing), Nuance speech recognition, and a javascript (node) interface to the AR.Drone.

Haha- the drone not landing when you told it to is basically the beginning of every sci-fi movie where the robots turn on the people. Great job.

TODO: add a kill switch :D

Re: Drone Control via Alexa

#7

Post by markwillis82 » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 8:41 PM UTC

I also did this a few years ago - voice controlled drone, had some keyboard based kill switches, unfortunately the drone is quite noisy so had to talk quite loudly to get a decent STT translation.

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#8

Post by kylek » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 8:41 PM UTC

"Alexa, search and destroy"

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#9

Post by pansinghkoder » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 8:44 PM UTC

markwillis82 wrote: post #7

I also did this a few years ago - voice controlled drone, had some keyboard based kill switches, unfortunately the drone is quite noisy so had to talk quite loudly to get a decent STT translation.

This setup just requires raspberry-pi to be in the vicinity of drone. Voice command can be provided remotely.

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Post by spectramax » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 8:45 PM UTC

jjwiseman wrote: post #2

I did something similar about six years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhBa11gdbeU I used a (Python) natural language parser of my own creation (this was before intent classification was a big thing), Nuance speech recognition, and a javascript (node) interface to the AR.Drone.

Seriously impressive! I particularly noted the speed of command to actuation.