# Installing and using PyTorch or ExecuTorch on a Starling 2 drone

Source: https://forum.modalai.com/topic/3712/installing-and-using-pytorch-or-executorch-on-a-starling-2-drone
Category: General Questions (https://forum.modalai.com/category/2/general-questions)
Posted: 2024-08-09 18:19:39 UTC by mario
Replies: 1 · Views: 565

## mario · 2024-08-09 18:19:39 UTC

Hello, has anyone tried to set up PyTorch on the Starling 2 drone?

I know there are TFLite models available, but I have a YOLOv8 model I've fine-tuned (using Ultralytics) and have converted it to a TFLite model, and it's been quite challenging to get it to work on the drone.

So, I was wondering if a better way is to somehow get PyTorch installed on the drone and use that instead for inferencing, instead of TFLite.

I know there's this new ExecuTorch thing available that enables inferencing using PyTorch models, so that I don't need to convert to TFLite: 
* https://pytorch.org/executorch-overview
* https://pytorch.org/executorch/stable/getting-started-setup.html

I'm more of a data scientist and not a software engineer, and certainly not well-versed with embedded systems, so was wondering if anyone has set up ExecuTorch on a Starling 2 drone.

## Reply by Moderator (ModalAI staff) · 2024-08-11 18:51:28 UTC

@mario Hi Mario, both Yolov8 and Pytorch are on our roadmap to support. We do not have a good timeline yet though.