Mr. Amir Nakić and Mr. Ibrahim Alispahić, master students from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of Sarajevo have participated in the qualifiers for the second edition of the Unmanned Aircraft Vehicle (UAV) Competition organized by the committee of the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS 2023). They have represented both the Faculty of Electrical Engineering Sarajevo, UNSA, and the AeroSTREAM project. Amir worked on navigation, 3D mapping, and motion planning problems, while Ibrahim was responsible for the second one, dealing with image processing and pattern recognition.
While the AeroSTREAM team, unfortunately, didn't advance to the final competition round, both Amir and Ibrahim have been satisfied with the progress they made towards the solution and, especially, with the knowledge they gained during the two months of work in a variety of fields, including ROS, Python, Gazebo, motion planning and pattern recognition. In addition to this, Amir and Ibrahim will join LARICS & CATEC team at ICUAS in Warsaw in June 2023 to learn more about competition organization and running.
Mr. Amir Nakić and Mr. Ibrahim Alispahić, master students from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of Sarajevo have participated in the qualifiers for the second edition of the Unmanned Aircraft Vehicle (UAV) Competition organized by the committee of the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS 2023). They have represented both the Faculty of Electrical Engineering Sarajevo, UNSA, and the AeroSTREAM project. Amir worked on navigation, 3D mapping, and motion planning problems, while Ibrahim was responsible for the second one, dealing with image processing and pattern recognition.
While the AeroSTREAM team, unfortunately, didn't advance to the final competition round, both Amir and Ibrahim have been satisfied with the progress they made towards the solution and, especially, with the knowledge they gained during the two months of work in a variety of fields, including ROS, Python, Gazebo, motion planning and pattern recognition. In addition to this, Amir and Ibrahim will join LARICS & CATEC team at ICUAS in Warsaw in June 2023 to learn more about competition organization and running.
The main objective of the first task was to utilize an octomap in conjunction with the MoveIt motion planning library to generate collision-free trajectories using the move_group node functionalities. These trajectories have then been utilized to navigate the vehicle to the specific points of interest in the predefined working environment. Regarding image processing, a crack detection algorithm based on the "darknet" detection project has been developed, where the neural network weights have been trained and validated using a provided training dataset. The algorithm has additionally been tested on images containing various types of cracks, which were randomly captured within different environments.