jltorresm / rust-nation-starter

Quickstarter for the Rust Nation UK 2024 Hackathon

Rust Nation Hackathon 2024

An embedded computer vision hackathon

Welcome

Welcome to Helsings Rust Nation Hackathon! This is the very first edition of our hackathon and we are glad to have you onboard. Enjoy!

Rules & Setup

• You are going to work in teams of 3-4 people.
• You may not move the drone outside of the enclosure
• Connect to the hs-rust-nation wifi

Challenge

A topdown-view of the challenge setup

You and your team are resposible for writing an application that makes use of computer vision, distributed systems and networking to maneouver your teams car (identified by the colored LED, in the example setup above: green) onto a color coded target (in the example setup above: blue).

The challenge you need to solve here arises from the fact that the car itself has no sensors and all information you have is coming from the drones camera and your computer vision algorithm.

A side-view of the challenge setup

The car is equipped with a raspberry pi that has access to the camera stream of the drone and the cars hardware (e.g. you can drive the car from the raspberry pi).

Given the above setup and the libraries provided by helsing you should write the highlevel application logic to:

• Identify your cars position
• Identify the orientation of the car
• Move the car into the color coded target area

Please Note: You are expected to develop this on your own laptop. Helsing provides you libraries and deployment tooling, aswell as the drone and the car, to make the above achievable in 60-90 minutes.

Quickstart

Please make use of the template in order to have a seamless deployment experience

• Form a team of 3-4 people and obtain your teams hardware from helsing staff.
• Fork the repository and grant your team members access
• Clone your teams repository and do a test deployment (to verify everythign works)
• Start hacking!

Deploying

$ rsync --exclude target -r . hack@<team>:/solution
$ ssh hack@team

Positioning the drone

Installing aviator

$ ssh hack@team "cargo instal --git github.com/helsing-ai/rust-nation --bin aviator
$ aviator

Using aviator

To use aviator you should run it at all times at is takes care of managing your drone!

You need to position the drone yourself (judging the FOV).

You can open http://<team>:3000/camera to see the drones image and use ./scripts/aviate <team> <command> to position it manually.