Locking a UAV onto a fixed point using a camera

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@TheFlyingWelshman take a look at this blog, it is tracking an object (Red Balloon) using a companion computer. You could certainly experiment based on this setup and using more advanced openCV object trackers.

QuadCopter Object Tracking on a budget

This project is a variation of the original Rand’ys Red Balloon Finder implementation. Based on this blog : http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/red-balloon-finder , I modified the Python scripts making now possible to test on any ArduPilot based Quadcopter on a low budget , relatively easy to implement controler. How does it work ? Using a Companion Computer -Raspberry Pi Zero - and Drone Kit Python, we are switching to GUIDED mode so that we are controlling an ArduPilot based Flight Control…