Innovative Drone Selfie System and Implementation

This paper proposes an innovative and first system in the world for the drone to conduct the assigned selfie-mission in a fully autonomous manner. In this system, the users can select a number of photo-templates on the APP and then the drone will autonomously fly to required positions to take the photos. In the selfie-photo templates, human stays in varied position, viewing angles, and distances to the drone inside the images. Human selects a preferable template, and then the drone will fly and shoot one photo that matches all parameters to the template without any manual control. The selfie drone system transforms the selected photo template into parameters which are subsequently used to perform the image-based visual servoing based control to enable the drone to fly to necessary position to shoot the requested selfie-photo in a fully autonomous manner. The innovative drone selfie system has been proven effective in a number of experiments.