Thesis Defense - Şeyma Sivritaş (MSEE)

Şeyma Sivritaş - M.Sc. Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Asst. Prof. Ahmet Tekin - Advisor

Date: 20.07.2020

Time: 11:00

Location: This meeting will be held ONLINE. Please send an e-mail to gizem.bakir@ozyegin.edu.tr in order to participate in this defense.

FAST 3D TRACKING ALGORITHM IMPLEMENTATIONS ON MINI QUAD-COPTERS

Thesis Committee:

Asst. Prof. Ahmet Tekin, Ozyegin University

Asst. Prof. Göktürk Poyrazoğlu, Özyeğin University

Asst. Prof. Reyat Yılmaz, Dokuz Eylül University

Abstract:

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been integrated into many applications. These vehicles are used by the governments and the private sector for many different purposes. Some of the popular applications are field scanning, target detection, target tracking, surveillance, defense markets, search and rescue, map creation, mine, water and underground resource search, photography or entertainment. Recently many academic institutions have shown a significant amount of interest in this field and many of them have established aviation departments and societies. In addition, many thesis studies and academic publications related to UAVs have been presented. The aim of this particular study is to detect a small object identified as a target by UAV and to provide autonomous tracking of the detected target in three axes. As the outcome of this work, the UAV is coded to lock on the target and maintain a fixed distance on the x, y and z axes after the initial lock. Within the scope of the study, a functional system was designed by optimizing around the most important parameters for UAVs such as weight, cost and flight time. An algorithm was designed that uses the image processing methods to detect the target and movement direction of the target and utilizes MAVLink communication protocol to control the UAV. In addition, two different tests and test results corresponding to two distinct methods were reported which were done to keep the distance (altitude) constant on the z-axis by using an external distance sensor or only with the help of the algorithm. The project was successfully implemented using single camera only.

Bio: 

Şeyma Sivritaş was born in 1991. She received a B.Sc. degree of Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Turkey in 2015. She worked at Vestel Electronics between 2015 and 2018. She has been working at Turkish Aerospace as an Avionics System Engineer. She has experience in aircraft avionics systems design, power distribution, and management systems design, analysis of communication systems.

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