Sanitization using Hexacopter Autonomous Drone

Autonomous Hexacopter Software Design

Autonomous Drone

For our senior project we modified a quadcopter so that it can fly autonomously and land whenever a camera detects a red target. The quadcopter uses four infrared sensors to avoid obstacles and an off-board camera to detect targets. Whenever the camera sees a red target, it tells the quadcopter to land. Our project was mostly successful; we were not able to attach the camera to the quadcopter d...

Using Competition to Control Congestion in Autonomous Drone Systems

With the number and variety of commercial drones and UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) set to escalate, there will be high future demands on popular regions of airspace and communication bandwidths. This raises safety concerns and hence heightens the need for a generic quantitative understanding of the real-time dynamics of multi-drone populations. Here, we explain how a simple system design buil...

Meteorite Recovery Using an Autonomous Drone and Machine Learning

R. I. Citron1, A. Shah2, S. Sinha3, C. Watkins4, and P. Jenniskens5,6, 1Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 ([email protected]), 2Department of Engineering, Computational, and Biological Learning, Cambridge University, UK, 3Holberton School of Software Engineering, San Francisco, CA, 4Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organiz...

Flood-survivors detection using IR imagery on an autonomous drone

In the search and rescue efforts soon after disaster such as floods, the time critical activities of survivor detection and localization can be solved by using thermal long-wave infrared (LWIR) cameras which are more robust to illumination and background textures than visual cameras. This particular problem is especially challenging due to the limited computational power available on-board comm...