A Hexacopter that Tracks Color

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Published Nov 16, 2017

These days, it has become more routine to look up in the sky and see small drone flying overhead. The uses for these unmanned aerial vehicles are becoming more numerous by the day, but the technology put into them hasn't been fully explored.

Electrical and computer engineering students Alexander Alling, Yizhe Cheng, Philip Fenimore, Joseph Lasekan and Hongji Yang wondered if it would be possible to add more computing power to the drone, and make it a little smarter in the process.

Starting from scratch, the team built a hexacopter capable of carrying the hardware they wanted to mount on it. Their goal was to program the drone to automatically locate objects based upon color and then track the object.

To do this, they had mount a camera, sensors of various types to calculate distance and speed, as well as a computer capable of running an algorithm that would handle the job of identifying color information and then tracking it.

The result is quite a complex piece of machinery, and while it might not yet have a specific application, the understanding could help to develop other advanced capabilities and program them into these aerial vehicles to enhance the ways that they can be used.

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