PRE2016 3 Groep16

Group members

Student ID	Name
09	M.D Visser
09	G. Marzano
09	R. Schalk
09	T. Jansen
09	J. Van Galen
09	B.G.M Hopman

Introduction

This is the Wiki page for the project Robots everywhere (0LAUK0) of group 16. The subject chosen is "Detection of people by using drones equipped with IR/heat sensors and Camera". Developing such a technology would make an impact due to the several applications it carries along. In the first phase of the project, after brainstorming, the following applications emerged:

• Find refugees in open sea
• Local security and criminals detection
• Inspection of insulation materials in houses (not directly "human recognition", but considered a valuable research)

Objectives

General

• showing that drones can be implemented in substitution of regular surveillance vehicles/cameras, consequently reducing costs and risks for operators.(Principle of Unnecessary Risk-PUR )
• Autonomous movement (User)

Application 1: Refugees search

• Reducing costs for refugee search in open sea (Society)
• Increase relative number of rescued refugees (Society)

Application 2: Surveillance & Security Drones

• Reduce the number of crimes (Society)
• Have a better understanding of crime distribution (Society)
• Make surveillance cheaper and more efficient (Enterprise & Society)
• Large scale surveillance

Application 3: Insulation in houses

• Verify heat losses in buildings
• Increased efficiency of procedure (analyze multiple living units & buildings at same time)
• Reduction of costs for maintenance and related time

Approach

General

• Determine the demands and benefits for user, society & enterprise.
• Divide group in subgroups working on different aspects of the project.
• Make a detailed planning.

Technical

• Equip the drone with a thermal camera (considering that a drone can be provided by TU/e).
• Program the drone and tune the sensors (e.g. find the threshold voltages) to detect the different values.
• Link the obtained data to an environmental structure (e.g. environment heat model).
• Adjust program in order to map properly the perimeters and consider the external heat deviations.
• Act on the environment under inspection (e.g. transmitting signal to operator).

Planning

To organize the workload of the project a planning is required, where the main requirements and deadlines are set, together with the task division.

Logbook

Weekly the progress of the group is going to be reported in this logbook. The purpose is to keep the full group up to date with the progress of each sub group. Moreover, it is useful to be always able to compare the actual progress with the planning.