Completed Phase 2 — drones can now maintain stability and hold formation distance from each other.
Milestones
- Completed Phase 2: Brain Development — trained drones to remain stable and maintain distance from each other
- Broke formation control into 3 subphases — going from a single hovering drone straight to a large swarm created a mess, so I took a more incremental approach
Next Steps
- Begin Phase 3: Muscle Refinement — integrate MINCO trajectory optimization and SwarmRaft consensus logic
Challenges
- Had to regress to basics and decompose formation control into smaller subphases. Jumping straight from one drone to a full swarm didn’t work — incremental scaling was key.
- Google Cloud credit usage is adding up. Looking into education credits as an option.