About PARROT Minidrones
Each aircraft:
- Weighs about 0.12 lb (less than the 0.55 lb required by FAA for registration)
- Includes ultrasonic, 6-DOF, air pressure and down-facing camera sensors
- Has a battery life of approximately seven minutes
Use in Teaching
Minidrones are a core initiative of PARROT Education. Professors at MIT have used Minidrones for student hands-on projects with 16.30/16.31 courses and other teaching initiatives.
Past student projects include:
- Line follower
- Landing back to base
- Hybrid altitude estimation
- Robust control
- Adaptive control for:
- Propeller malfunction
- Weight changes
- Battery voltage changes
Platform and Release Support
See the hardware support package system requirements table for current and prior version, release, and platform availability.