acuaroo/ai-plays-drone-soccer

🤖 Teaching an AI to play drone soccer

AI plays drone soccer

Goal: Train an AI to play drone soccer, and play against other huamans/AI

What's drone soccer?

Essentially, on each team, there's a "striker". This striker must pilot their drone into the enemy teams goal, everybody on their team blocks the enemies striker, and everybody on the opposing team blocks them. More in-depth rules can be found here, but for our purposes, this should be good enough!

Stage 0: Prep

For the drone, I went for the Tello, due to it's easy python API, small size, and being relatively cheap (allowing me to upscale to more drones).

Stage 1: Training

First step is training, in this, we're going to teach a drone how to go through the hoop. To collect training data, I've set up a bluetooth server (bluetooth-server.py), where a video game controller connects to the PC, and the PC relays the commands to the drone. I have to use this relay approach as I need to record data, which their app doesn't allow you to do.

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Project is still a WIP...