Updates provided to the D-STOP Business Advisory Council at the 2017 Symposium and Board Meeting: https://ctr.utexas.edu/2018/04/12/d-stop-2017-symposium-archive/
2016 Next Gen ISR Velocity Group PresentationVelocity Group
This was a presentation given by Commercial UAV/UAS expert and Velocity Group Business Development Director, Ron Stearns, at the TTC Next-Generation ISR Symposium for Military and Government. Ron presents his forecast analysis for budgets and spending in the UAV/UAS ISR space for commercial and defense verticals. He also looks at new data applications and opportunities in private and public sectors as a result of the FAA's Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 and subsequent changes since the bill became law (eg - Section 333 vs. Part 107).
OBJECTIVE
Familiarization of the student with avionics suite of Boeing-777 a 4th generation aircraft comprising of following Subsystems:
1) HMI
2) AIRDATA System
3) Radar System
4) Communication system
5) Navigation system
6) Computer(s)
7) Data bus(es)
PRESENTATION BY P. XEFTERIS AND C. DIONISIO FOR THE ITALIAN INSTITUTE OF NAVIGATION. IT PROVIDES AN OVERVIEW OF ISSUES RELATED TO OPERATIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR CARGO TRANSPORT UAVs OVER 150kG MGTW
2016 Next Gen ISR Velocity Group PresentationVelocity Group
This was a presentation given by Commercial UAV/UAS expert and Velocity Group Business Development Director, Ron Stearns, at the TTC Next-Generation ISR Symposium for Military and Government. Ron presents his forecast analysis for budgets and spending in the UAV/UAS ISR space for commercial and defense verticals. He also looks at new data applications and opportunities in private and public sectors as a result of the FAA's Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 and subsequent changes since the bill became law (eg - Section 333 vs. Part 107).
OBJECTIVE
Familiarization of the student with avionics suite of Boeing-777 a 4th generation aircraft comprising of following Subsystems:
1) HMI
2) AIRDATA System
3) Radar System
4) Communication system
5) Navigation system
6) Computer(s)
7) Data bus(es)
PRESENTATION BY P. XEFTERIS AND C. DIONISIO FOR THE ITALIAN INSTITUTE OF NAVIGATION. IT PROVIDES AN OVERVIEW OF ISSUES RELATED TO OPERATIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR CARGO TRANSPORT UAVs OVER 150kG MGTW
European Rotors - Mission Management System’s Capabilities for Law Enforcemen...Leonardo
Leonardo attended at European Rotors the Police Aviation Conference illustrating its Mission Management System’s capabilities for Law Enforcement Operators
There are four levels of maintenance
Line replacement unit (LRU)-level maintenance.
Shop replacement unit (SRU)-level maintenance.
Depot-level maintenance.
Factory-level or manufacturer-level maintenance.
Advanced vehicle/vehcile and vehicle/UAV collaboration sude cases enabled by ...Yaroslav Domaratsky
Our mesh SW core technology is ready for integration. We need Tier 1 partner to integrate our technology into IEEE 802.11p OBU (or into Cellular-V2x OBU) and to develop application layer software.
European Rotors - Mission Management System’s Capabilities for Law Enforcemen...Leonardo
Leonardo attended at European Rotors the Police Aviation Conference illustrating its Mission Management System’s capabilities for Law Enforcement Operators
There are four levels of maintenance
Line replacement unit (LRU)-level maintenance.
Shop replacement unit (SRU)-level maintenance.
Depot-level maintenance.
Factory-level or manufacturer-level maintenance.
Advanced vehicle/vehcile and vehicle/UAV collaboration sude cases enabled by ...Yaroslav Domaratsky
Our mesh SW core technology is ready for integration. We need Tier 1 partner to integrate our technology into IEEE 802.11p OBU (or into Cellular-V2x OBU) and to develop application layer software.
A Survey of Interoperability among Surveillance System using ONVIFRSIS International
Interoperability among the multiple camera
manufacturers is challenging problem. To solve the problem of
interoperability the ONVIF is focusing to define protocol for IPbased
video camera. This paper survey of the development of an
ONVIF library to develop clients of video camera. This paper
addresses the choice of a web services toolkit, and how to use the
selected toolkit to develop a basic library. The survey helps the
industry to development application easily. In addition to core
specification, ONVIF provides many different services. ONVIF
Event service is supposed to provide notification messages to
registered clients when events happen, which is an essential
mechanism to be support to make IPNC intelligent. In this
survey paper, we report our efforts to implement ONVIF Event
service for the smart IPNC. First, we design S/W architecture,
necessary data structures, and workflow of ONVIF Event service
according to ONVIF Event service specification. This paper
presents the gSOAP stub and skeleton compiler. The skeleton
compiler facilitates the unique SOAP to C/C++ applications in
SOAP web services, clients, and peer-to-peer computing
networks.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit:
http://www.embedded-vision.com/platinum-members/qualcomm/embedded-vision-training/videos/pages/may-2016-embedded-vision-summit-talluri
For more information about embedded vision, please visit:
http://www.embedded-vision.com
Raj Talluri, Senior Vice President of Product Management at Qualcomm Technologies, presents the "Is Vision the New Wireless?" tutorial at the May 2016 Embedded Vision Summit.
Over the past 20 years, digital wireless communications has become an essential technology for many industries, and a primary driver for the electronics industry. Today, computer vision is showing signs of following a similar trajectory. Once used only in low-volume applications such as manufacturing inspection, vision is now becoming an essential technology for a wide range of mass-market devices, from cars to drones to mobile phones. In this presentation, Talluri examines the motivations for incorporating vision into diverse products, presents case studies that illuminate the current state of vision technology in high-volume products, and explores critical challenges to ubiquitous deployment of visual intelligence.
Deployment of Beacon Technology in Aviation by LeantegraOlga Rusnak
Check out the Leantegra presentation to learn how beacons, and powered by them RTLS and Proximity Marketing solutions can make every passenger's stay at an airport a positive start of a great adventure!
White paper: Enhance mobility and driver experience with multihop data exchan...Yaroslav Domaratsky
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have growing potential in the Public Safety (PS), commercial, government, and consumer domains. Over six million UAVs will be sold in the US in 2016, and the total available UAV market is estimated to reach 100 million UAVs sold worldwide by 2020. We believe that flying Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) would be the most suitable technology to organize communication between UAVs, between UAVs and ground infrastructure and between UAVs and ground vehicles. In the paper we propose technical approach to implement the above listed use cases using low cost communication technologies within ITS architecture. In the paper we define use cases, discuss potentially applicable communication technologies, overview WMN data routing protocols, list UAV specific requirements and discuss product differentiation.
Updates provided to the D-STOP Business Advisory Council at the 2017 Symposium and Board Meeting: https://ctr.utexas.edu/2018/04/12/d-stop-2017-symposium-archive/
Updates provided to the D-STOP Business Advisory Council at the 2017 Symposium and Board Meeting: https://ctr.utexas.edu/2018/04/12/d-stop-2017-symposium-archive/
Updates provided to the D-STOP Business Advisory Council at the 2017 Symposium and Board Meeting: https://ctr.utexas.edu/2018/04/12/d-stop-2017-symposium-archive/
Updates provided to the D-STOP Business Advisory Council at the 2017 Symposium and Board Meeting: https://ctr.utexas.edu/2018/04/12/d-stop-2017-symposium-archive/
Updates provided to the D-STOP Business Advisory Council at the 2017 Symposium and Board Meeting: https://ctr.utexas.edu/2018/04/12/d-stop-2017-symposium-archive/
Updates provided to the D-STOP Business Advisory Council at the 2017 Symposium and Board Meeting: https://ctr.utexas.edu/2018/04/12/d-stop-2017-symposium-archive/
Updates provided to the D-STOP Business Advisory Council at the 2017 Symposium and Board Meeting: https://ctr.utexas.edu/2018/04/12/d-stop-2017-symposium-archive/
Updates provided to the D-STOP Business Advisory Council at the 2017 Symposium and Board Meeting: https://ctr.utexas.edu/2018/04/12/d-stop-2017-symposium-archive/
Updates provided to the D-STOP Business Advisory Council at the 2017 Symposium and Board Meeting: https://ctr.utexas.edu/2018/04/12/d-stop-2017-symposium-archive/
Online platforms are emerging as a powerful mechanism for matching resources to requests. In the setting of freight, the requests arrive from shippers, who have a diverse collection of goods. The resources are supplied by shippers (trucks), and have various physical constraints (driver’s route preferences, carrying capacity, geographic preferences, etc.). Online platforms are emerging that (a) learn the characteristics of shippers and carriers, and (b) efficiently match goods to trucks based on such learning.
Our project will develop algorithms for such online resource allocation. This is a challenging problem, due to the complexity of the learning tasks. Such algorithms can have considerable impact on efficiently using trucking resources.
Through this project, the research team will leverage the computing resources and expertise at UT to develop a “data discovery environment” for transportation data to aid decision-making. Many efforts focus on leveraging transportation data to help travelers make decisions, but less thought has gone into a framework for using big data to help transportation agency staff and decision makers. The team will start by building the DDE for the Central Texas region, in collaboration with the local MPO, the City of Austin, and the local transit agency. Initially, the project will focus on creating more meaning from existing data sources, and as the project progresses, it will grow to include more novel data sources and methods. The data platform will be web-based and part of the research includes not only building the tool but developing appropriate protocols for access and governance.
With changing transportation paradigms, there is significant potential for a shift in the balance between the overall population use of, and reliance on, ridesharing services versus traditional transportation options such as personal car ownership or transit use. This shift could lead to a realignment of the bulk of the responsibility for mobility to private entities and away from individual citizens and public entities. Today, as supplemental to the multitude of transportation options that are available, the availability, or lack thereof, of ridesharing services produces low to minimal risk to the traveling public. However, in a future in which ridesharing is optimally (widely) employed, the current independent nature of ridesharing services will influence wider community transit services. This problem statement explores the effects of new types of transportation on transit through the creation of several plausible future scenarios, and what policy decisions could potentially be made to ensure that transit is optimally employed.
Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are a key technology for improving road safety. But both current and proposed ADAS are limited in important ways. Vision- and lidar-based ADAS performs poorly in heavy rain, snow, or fog. Lack of vehicle situational awareness due to these sensing limitations will unfortunately be the cause of many accidents, including fatalities, for connected and automated vehicles in the years to come. The goal of this research is to develop and test a sensing strategy with robust perception: No blind spots, applicable to all driveable environments, and available in all weather conditions. We believe there are three key requirements for collaborative all-weather sensing:
– Precise vehicle positioning within a common reference frame
– Decimeter-accurate vision and radar mapping
– A means of quantifying the benefits of collaborative sensing
Vehicular radar and communication are the two primary means of using radio frequency (RF) signals in transportation systems. Automotive radars provide high-resolution sensing using proprietary waveforms in millimeter wave (mmWave) bands and vehicular communications allow vehicles to exchange safety messages or raw sensor data. Both the techniques can be used for applications such as forward collision warning, cooperative adaptive cruise control, and pre-crash applications.
Many areas of machine learning and data mining focus on point estimates of key parameters. In transportation, however, the inherent variance, and, critically, the need to understand the limits of that variance and the impact it may have, have long been understood to be important. Indeed, variance and other risk measures that capture the cost of the spread around the mean, are critical factors in understanding how people act. Thus they are critical for prediction, as well as for purposes of long term planning, where controlling risk may be equally important to controlling the mean (the point estimate).
There has been tremendous progress on large scale optimization techniques to enable the solution of large scale machine learning and data analytics problems. Stochastic Gradient Descent and its variants is probably the most-used large-scale optimization technique for learning. This has not yet seen an impact on the problem of statistical inference — namely, obtaining distributional information that might allow us to control the variance and hence the risk of certain solutions.
Investigation and findings on reservation-based intersections and managed lanes
Real-Time Signal Control and Traffic Stability
Congestion on urban arterials is largely centered around intersection control. Traditional traffic signal schemes are limited in their ability to adapt in real time to traffic conditions or by their ability to coordinate with each other to ensure adequate performance. Specifically, there is a tension between adaptivity (as with actuated signals) and coordination through pre-timed signals (signal progression). We propose to investigate whether routing protocols in telecommunications networks can be applied to resolve these problems. Specifically, the backpressure algorithm of Tassiulas & Emphremides (1992) can ensure system stability through decentralized control under relatively weak regularity conditions. It is as yet unknown whether this algorithm can be adapted to traffic signal systems, and if so, what modifications are needed. Traffic systems differ in several significant ways from telecommunication networks: each intersection approach has relatively few queues (lanes) that must be shared among traffic to various definitions. First-in, first-out constraints lead to head-of-line blocking effects, traffic waves move at a much slower speed than data packets, and traffic queues are tightly limited by physical space (finite buffers). Determining whether (and how) the backpressure concept can be adapted to traffic networks requires significant research, and has the potential to dramatically improve signal performance.
Improved Models for Managed Lane Operations
Managed lanes (ML) are increasingly being considered as a tool to mitigate congestion on highways with limited areas for capacity expansion. Managed lanes are dynamically priced based on the congestion level, and can be set either with the objective of maximum utilization (e.g., a public operator) or profit maximization (e.g., a private operator). Optimization models for determining these pricing policies make restrictive assumptions about the layout of these corridors (often a single entrance and exit) or knowledge of traveler characteristics on behalf of the modeler (e.g., distribution of willingness to pay). Developing new models to address these issues would allow for better utilization of these facilities.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
3. Motivation
3
3
It is the right time for SAVES to go aerial!
SAVES has addressed many aspects
of vehicular engineering for ground
vehicles during its first year of life
Problems like collaborative sensing,
vehicular communication, map making
or navigation have common aspects in
aerial and ground scenarios
Drone-based systems are
driving disruptive
applications in the market
Taking SAVES to the skies
4. Big numbers for the commercial drone industry
4*Numbers predicted by the FAA and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) https://www.dartdrones.com/blog/drone-industry-impact/
2025
82.1 billion
Tax revenue 2015-2025
$482 million
Jobs by 2025
100,000
The estimated economic impact of the drone industry is enormous
Commercial
drone fleet
42,000
420,000
2016 2021
States predicted to
see the most gains
in terms of job
creation and
additional revenue
5. 5
Aerial vehicles
UAVs as imaging
sensors
UAVs for
wireless
UAVs for sensing
and monitoring
UAVs for
transportation
TECHNOLOGIES
SENSING + COMMUNICATION in drones enables revolutionary applications
6. 10
Technologies for disruptive UAV applications
Positioning/mapping/
navigation
Collaborative
sensing
MIMO
communication
SAVES faculties are well positioned on key UAV technologies
7. Autonomy levels
11
Different autonomy levels require different technologies
Fully automated
operation with high
connectivity
Automated
navigation with
moderate rate
communication
GPS available
Automated
development of a
task/control signals
through
communication
possible/distributed
computation
possible
Fully automated
operation with moderate
connectivity
Automated
navigation with
high rate
communication
GPS available
Automated
development of a
task/control signals
through
communication
possible/distributed
computation
possible
Autonomous
operation
Autonomous
development of
a task
Autonomous
navigation when
communication/GPS
not available
NO CONNECTIVITY MODERATE/HIGH CONNECTIVITY
9. Core networkGateway
Aerial communication expertise
13
MmWave MIMO for air-to-
air communication
Capacity analysis
PHY design
Channel models for the mmWave
A2G and A2A channels
Network topologies for
A2G and A2A @
mmWave
MU millimeter wave MIMO
for A2G
Initial work supported
by LMCO
10. 14
Trajectory planning, obstacle
avoidance
14
Different drone applications
require different on-board
sensors
GPS signal may not be available
in certain environments
(canyons, forests, etc.)
How can the drone navigate
autonomously with the set of
sensors required by the
application and no
GPS/communication?
Develop and evaluate navigation algorithms
using one camera/two
cameras/camera+radar/etc.
Navigating without GPS
Example: navigating with an on board camera
11. UAV based traffic monitoring
15
Video feed over WiFi/cellular
Video Processing
Data Processing
CLOUD
the unbiased result, we avoided choosing consecutive fram
in the same testing data set. For each data set, we calculat
the ratio of number of vehicles being detected and the to
number of vehicles. Then we average the ratios we got fro
all of the data sets. Furthermore, we repeated the process t
times from generating testing sets to averaging the ratios.
An example of the output of the tracking algorithm can
seen in Fig. 7 (a) and (b). In order to observe the tracki
results, we assigned each detected vehicle a unique numb
and display it. For each real-world aerial video as an inp
data set, we observed if the assigned number of a vehic
changed from its entering to the screen to its exit. The res
shows that unique numbers assigned to vehicles do not chan
for every testing video.
(a)
Video feed over WiFiVVideo feed over
Video Processing
Data Processing
Web Application
Fig. 4: Illustration of our experimental setup.eps
network between them, and the computer can access the UAV
and the controller over the provided IP address. After deciding
on a UAV, we chose a GoPro 4 camera for the system. The
GoPro 4 camera is compatible with the 3DR Solo gimble,
and it has adjustable frame rate and resolution that makes it
possible to collect different types of data.
Fig. 6: Overview of the structure of the traffic monitori
application.
contour detection, when the color of the vehicle and the co
of background are very similar, it cannot generate good resul
The Haar cascade model can detect cars accurately even wh
the drone shifts. By training with a large number of pictur
its accuracy can be increased steadily.
We chose the OpenCV module in Python to implement t
Haar cascade model. OpenCV’s open-source library of ima
processing functions allows us to process the input vid
Video feed over WiFiVVideo feed over
Video Processing
Data Processing
Web Application
Fig. 4: Illustration of our experimental setup.eps
network between them, and the computer can access the UAV
and the controller over the provided IP address. After deciding
on a UAV, we chose a GoPro 4 camera for the system. The
GoPro 4 camera is compatible with the 3DR Solo gimble,
and it has adjustable frame rate and resolution that makes it
possible to collect different types of data.
Fig. 5: 3DR Solo quadcopter equipped with a GoPro 4 camera.
The general processing steps are illustrated in Fig. 6. The
computer module is composed of three submodules: video
processing, data processing, and web application. Users make
monitoring request via a web application. After they enter the
location information, the web application takes the request and
generates a flight script that can be sent to the drone over
Wi-Fi. Then the drone flies to the desired location and start
collecting video.
For software decisions, the methods we tested to detect
vehicles are background subtraction [14], contour detection
[15], and the Haar cascade model. Background subtraction
and contour detection are the most common methods being
applied to vehicle detection. After running the background
subtraction algorithm, we found that it is inaccurate when
the drone’s position shift during video taking process. As for
Fig. 6: Overview of the structure of the traffic monitoring
application.
contour detection, when the color of the vehicle and the color
of background are very similar, it cannot generate good results.
The Haar cascade model can detect cars accurately even when
the drone shifts. By training with a large number of pictures,
its accuracy can be increased steadily.
We chose the OpenCV module in Python to implement the
Haar cascade model. OpenCV’s open-source library of image
processing functions allows us to process the input video
frame by frame and implement vehicle detection functions.
Even though MATLAB has similar functionalities for video
processing, it operates much slower than the OpenCV and
Python combination. Furthermore, based on our experience,
MATLAB needs more RAM and delay real-time processing
compared with OpenCV. After all the hardware and software
decisions, our first step is to get access to drone video feed
through the computer. We use VLC media player to view
the live video captured by the camera. Therefore, one of
the hardware requirements for the system is a computer with
VLC installed. The computer communicates with the drone by
connecting to the drone’s Wi-Fi and building a TCP connection
with a Telnet client. To build a TCP connection, an SDP file
including the TCP parameters is needed.
V. RESULTS
Before testing the experimental system, we collected 3750
vehicle and non-vehicle images to train the Haar cascade
model. The images were captured from the aerial video filmed
in several areas in Austin, Texas. We used the built-in sample
generating functions in OpenCV to apply distortions to the
input images, and to label data. After that, we flew the UAV
and recorded different sets of aerial videos captured at different
heights and times for testing the system.
The detection accuracy of our system lies in the range 83-
90% for any given frame. To compute the detection accuracy,
we chose frame samples from the input videos. In order to get
13. Summary of ideas
17
Navigating in a team without
GPS and connectivity Joint positioning and
communication using 5G
signalsSLAM aided mmWave
communication
Channel variation
models for A2G/A2A
Leveraging cellular
infrastructure
for automated operation
Managing/leveraging interference
in sub 6-GHz networks
Designing mmWave
hotspots
Infrastructure to support
automated flying Integrating autonomous
and manned vehicles
3D coverage maps for
trajectory planning
14. Trajectory planning, obstacle
avoidance
Operating in a team without connectivity with the
infrastructure
18
How to implement team
navigation, which sensing data have
to be shared between UAVs? how
performance depends on data rate?
Collaborative sensing
framework for task
development
15. 19
Assume drones are equipped with
mmWave MIMO transceivers
How to use the mmWave
communication signal for positioning?
Prior work on joint positioning and
communication does not consider high
mobility conditions in aerial scenarios
Develop joint positioning and
communication algorithms at mmWave
for the aerial environment
Location of the
aerial BS is known
with some errorLocation of the
aerial MS or
distance to aerial
BS are unknown
Joint positioning and communication using 5G signals
16. SLAM is a popular solution for
localization and mapping that can be
used for drone navigation
20
Infrared imaging
Radar
4K video
Communications relay
Air-to-ground link
Aerial access point
Networked airborne users
in a rescue mission
Some applications may require high data
rate A2A/A2G communication links
Use drone navigation algorithms to aid millimeter wave beam alignment and reduce
communication overhead by mapping SLAM outputs and channel estimates
PI: Profs. Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic and Robert Heath
SLAM aided mmwave communication
17. Developing a channel variation model for mmWave A2G/A2A
links
21
Trajectory
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Distance from start point [m]
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
Angle[deg]
Azimuth of Departure
AoA serie
generated from
Quadriga*
Incorporate high mobility and spatial
consistency into the A2A and A2G
channel models
A channel variation model is the key to develop channel tracking
algorithms to reduce training overhead for beamformers update
18. Leveraging cellular infrastructure
for automated operation
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Cellular infrastructure can
supplement aerial traffic
management
Cellular infrastructure can
play a roll for drone
localization and tracking
Sensing at the infrastructure
provides distributed tracking
without high power radar
Processing can be offloaded to a
centralized processor, cell edge, or cloud
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LOS conditions in the A2G channel
impact interference level at the UAV
Design MIMO strategies at the UAV to mitigate multi-BS interference
Managing/leveraging interference in sub 6-GHz networks
Interference
20. Designing mmWave hotspots
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Air-to-ground link
Aerial access point
Air-to-air link
Develop MU MIMO strategies for mixed
aerial-ground networks
Optimize location of aerial access point
to maximize coverage
21. Integrating autonomous and manned vehicles
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Study the ways that autonomous
airplanes may be integrated with
manned vehicles, starting withVFR, in
the next five years
Identify critical and optional
components in the aircraft and on
the ground to support such
operations
ADS-B for position location
Radio
Cameras to detect legacy aircraft
Speech processing
Sensor
fusion
Radar altimeter
Radar for collision avoidance
22. Infrastructure to support automated flying
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How to use the communication
signals and sensor fusion to aid
positioning?
Design trajectory planning algorithms which
account for dynamic coverage maps of the
environment
How can sensing at the infrastructure
enhance situational awareness in mixed
piloted and automated environments?
Study the role of cellular
infrastructure in supporting
automated flying, including new
modes of communication at higher
rates and also sensing at the base
station
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(x,y,z)
GPS signal
Cellular coverage
Wi-Fi signal
Design trajectory planning algorithms which account for dynamic coverage
maps of the environment including communication and sensing
3D coverage maps for trajectory planning