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>> This is our multispectral imaging drone.
And the purpose of it is to survey a
site for an archaeologist, and be able to
let him know where stuff is before he
actually goes and excavates the entire site.
We designed this gimbal part. We built
the gimbal to use as a platform and then
we designed the control system so that we
could actually tell the cameras
when to take pictures and have the
gimbal stabilize on its own. The system
has a few different parts that work
together.
The first sensor's called the tetra cam.
It's actually got six different cameras
in it. And that takes your normal RGB, so
whatever you see on a regular
phone camera. And then it also takes some
infrared, near-infrared, information and
you can see: Is there vegetation
and plants? And if it is there how
healthy is it? And using that information
you can kind of see where there
might be stressors in the ground. And a
big cause of that might be something
obstructing the root growth. And then we
also have a little thermal camera. And
the idea is that if we see something
that looks like a thermal anomaly, so
it's emitting heat at a different rate
than the dirt, and it correlates to the
position of something that might be
stressing out the vegetation, there's
probably something there to go dig up.
I'm proud that we got a working thing. We
have something that flies and we can
take pictures of a real scene, and it
looks really, really good.
>> It's pretty rewarding. I think a
lot of times in school you don't get
the chance to work on a project team
like this, a multidisciplinary project
team, like you would in the real world. So
having that experience
coming together, it really gives you a
better real-world idea of what you're
going to be doing.
>> It's great because in the real world you're going
to be working on a team. You're going to
be working with different engineers,
different people. You're not
going to be working by yourself on a
single project.
