Tech Talk: Pi in the Sky: How Computer Vision can give a Quadcopter Autonomous Flight

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Galois is pleased to host the following tech talk. These talks are open to
the interested public–please join us! (There is no need to pre-register for
the talk.)

title: Pi in the Sky: How Computer Vision can give a Quadcopter Autonomous Flight
speaker: A team of PSU students
time: Tuesday, 4 June 2013, 10:30am
location:
Galois Inc.
421 SW 6th Ave. Suite 300,
Portland, OR, USA
(3rd floor of the Commonwealth building)

abstract:
Five students in PSU’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Senior
Capstone sequence want to show you what they’ve created: an inexpensive
computer vision system for a quadcopter running on a Raspberry Pi board. One
might be surprised how simple it is to code a decent object tracking algorithm
using open-source software, and how difficult it is to keep a quadcopter from
crashing into the wall in the debug stage. This talk should appeal to the RC
hobbyist, the embedded systems programmer, and anyone interested in the art of
computer vision. The presentation will include video footage of what these
students have accomplished and how they pulled it off.