We are the team "UT-Dronefly" from the University of Texas at Dallas and Penn State University. Our app "Automated Power Line Inspector" provides the real-time tracking and inspection for power line, road, railway, etc. In the on site demo at san francisco Augues 27, our image processing speed is 10 frames/second, and the maximum cruising speed is about 20 miles/hour.
Power Line tracking
Road Tracking
System Design and Procedure
Our system can be simplified into three parts- camera capture, power line detection and flight control. To accomplish the line detection, the image is processed by noising filtering, short line detection and line clustering. After the line detection, power line will be recognized by its own features, like parallel, reasonable length etc. According to these features, we capture the most possible power lines from the existing hundreds of lines. The procedure is shown in the figures in the following.
APP GUI (This is iphone version GUI)
Video In order to show more details, we reduce the speed of the road tracking video. The actual flight speed is a little faster. And according to the law in California, we cannot demo the power line detection; the demo is about the road detection.
On site Demo video (Our algorithm works in very noisy enviroment) Auguest 27, Sunnyvale Baylands Park, Sunnyvale, CA You can find the earlier version video during in our developmen
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