MinidroneCompetition track evaluation, how can I build our own tracks?

As the rules introduced, our minidrone will be tested on multiple tracks. Does anyone know who we can build our own tracks for evaluation in the simulink?

Answer 1

[Maitreyee Mordekar]

Hello Tianwei,

You can refer to the last video in the MathWorks Minidrone Competition video series, Competition Arena. That would probably help you understand how you can change the track in the simulation environment:

https://www.mathworks.com/videos/mathworks-minidrone-competition-competition-arena-1551802694222.html

I hope this helps.

-Maitreyee

[Tianwei Zhang]

Dear Maitreyee

Thanks for your reply and we are able to edit the track ourselves now. As we can see in the video that the track is single color but it can be any color, so are we required to detect the track color automatually by the software or we could manually adjust our code(image processing block) due to the track color accordingly? Thank you!

Kind Regards

Tianwei

[Maitreyee Mordekar]

Hello Tianwei,

Great to hear that you were able to track :)

The track for Simulation round would be just Red (#FF0000) as mentioned in section B.3 of the Getting Started Guide. So, for Round 1 of the competition, you can assume that the track colour will be #FF0000.

If you are shortlisted for Round 2 of the competition,the colour of the track would be different. For this, you can use the time in the Practice round to tune the image thresholds. The video on Deploy on Hardware in the MathWorks Minidrone Competition video series may help to understand how to tune the parameters in the model.

I hope this helps.

-Maitreyee

[Ayush Sinha]

I do not get the 'Open track builder' option when I open a project using the 'startParrotMinidroneCompetition' command. It should be visible as written in the documentation https://www.mathworks.com/help/supportpkg/parrot/ug/track-builder-app.html

[Maitreyee Mordekar]

Hello Ayush,

The Track Builder App is available from MATLAB R2021a onwards. Kindly ensure to install the latest release for this feature.

Regards,

Maitreyee