Micro-air Vehicles, Robotics, and Sensor Tracking

Abstract

<p>Micro-air vehicles (or MAVs) are becoming an increasingly important technology with promising applications in defense, security, and commercial areas. A team of undergraduate students in engineering and computer science is developing a prototype MAV to demonstrate the detection and tracking of interesting moving objects, some of which may be ground based lego robots. The team has been developing a prototype MAV around a quadrotor design to which sensors, communications, controls, and special software will be developed and integrated. The MAV and ground based robots will also communicate with a centralized artificially intelligent (AI) process that gathers information from all moving and stationary sensors, makes decisions, and deploys moving sensor platforms as needed. This project is organized and conducted at the Wright Brother's Institute Tec"Edge Discovery Lab as a collaboration of AFRL and WSU to give students an opportunity for "experiential learning" under AFRL's Academic Leadership Pipeline Scholarship (ALPS) program.</p><p>This presentation occurred at the Wright State University Campus-Wide Celebration of Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities on April 16, 2010</p>