Personal Information Gathering System
Description
Personal Information Gathering System (P.I.G.S.) was my capstone project at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I worked alongside four other senior computer engineering students on a project sponsored by Aerovironment. We were tasked with creating a drone system that could gather information around the user for their safety.
P.I.G.S. Demo
Features
- Drone group consisting of 2 drones (can be expanded to include more)
- Mobile application that controls drones and provides information to user
- Four drone modes
- Orbit Mode: All drones orbit around the user and stream video to the phone
- Explore Mode: One drone is dispatched to a location based on user input
- Bird Mode: One drone is dispatched to a higher altitude to provide a wider FOV
- Radar Mode: Drones will move to set locations around the user and utilize computer vision models to detect objects in the area
Awards
- Faculty Choice Award at UCSB Computer Engineering Capstone Day 2023
- Cliff Aggen Student Paper Award at International Telemetry Conference 2023
International Telemetry Conference 2023 (ITC)
Towards the end of our project, we started working on our paper to submit to the International Telemetry Conference. We submitted our implementation of a drone-based information gathering system to the conference and won the Cliff Aggen Student Paper Award. In October 2023, two other students and I, attended the conference in Las Vegas and presented our project to the attendees.
Professor Yogananda Isukapalli, Matthew Tran, Yifan Pan, and Tianrui Hu (Left to Right) at ITC 2023