Project

# Title Team Members TA Documents Sponsor
32 Observation Balloon For Testing Centers
 Jiajie Wang
Shuaicun Qian
Tunan Zhao
Yichi Zhang
 Yutao Zhuang design_document1.pdf
final_paper2.pdf
proposal2.pdf
 Timothy Lee
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Yichi Zhang NetID: yichi6
Tunan Zhao NetID: tunanz2
Jiajie Wang NetID: jiajie3
Shuaicun Qian NetID: sqian8

PROBLEM A floating balloon drone that monitors students who are taking tests. Needs to be non-noisy and provide aerial observation of the students to make sure that they are not cheating. Normally, if we want to use the drone to monitor the students, the sound will heavily affect the students and it may cause danger. Therefore, we want to create a safer machine that can achieve the goal. We can remotely control the direction and the height of the balloon. And we can bring it to the place where has no camera to monitor the student.

SOLUTION OVERVIEW Our design is a none-noisy balloon drone that can be controlled by human remotely to monitor the students that taking the exam. The most important part is we need to make it not noisy as the normal drone. We want to use some special way to avoid using noisy motor. And to make it more useful, we make the drone equipped with several cameras which can send the pictures to our cellphone with Bluetooth. And if possible, we want to use the computer version to automatically detect if there are any students suspected cheating.

SOLUTION COMPONENTS

SUBSYSTEM #1: BALLOON DESIGN
Design the overall structure of the balloon, including the shape and size.
Choose which gas to use for construction based on their weight, durability, and strength.
Create a physical model of the balloon using 3D printing or laser cutting.

SUBSYSTEM #2: FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM
Design a control panel that includes a joystick and other necessary controls.
Choose appropriate sensors for detecting altitude, speed, and orientation of the plane.
Implement algorithms for stabilizing the plane during flight and adjusting control surfaces for directional control. SUBSYSTEM #3:
POWER AND PROPULSION
Choose a suitable motor which has no noisy and propeller to provide the necessary thrust for the plane.
Design and integrate a battery system that can power the motor and control systems for sufficient time.
Implement a power management system that can monitor the battery voltage and ensure safe operation of the plane. SUBSYSTEM #4:
IMAGE TRANSMISSION
Buy a small monitor that can capture the picture.
Control the battery it uses.
Transmit the picture to user's phone.
If possible, automatically detect whether there is someone cheating.

CRITERION FOR SUCCESS
1.Floating balloon drone with flight controls built for indoor environments.
2.Able to capture suspicious student activity during testing.

DISTRIBUTION OF WORK

Yichi Zhang: POWER AND PROPULSION
Tunan Zhao: IMAGE TRANSMISSION
Jiajie Wang: BALLOON DESIGN and FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM
Shuaicun Qian: BALLOON DESIGN and FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM

Remote Driving System

Bo Pang, Jiahao Wei, Kangyu Zhu

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#### TEAM MEMBERS

Jiahao Wei (jiahaow4)

Bo Pang (bopang5)

Kangyu Zhu (Kangyuz2)

## REMOTE DRIVING SYSTEM

#### PROBLEM:

In daily life, people might not be able to drive due to factors like fatigue and alcohol. In this case, remote chauffeur can act as the driver to make the driving safe and reduce the incidence of traffic accidents. Remote chauffeuring can improve the convenience of driving. In the case of urban traffic congestion and parking difficulties, remote chauffeurs allow drivers to park their vehicles in parking lots away from the city center and then deliver them to their destination via remote control.

#### SOLUTION OVERVIEW:

The remote driving system is designed to provide real-time feedback of the car's external environment and internal movement information to the remote chauffeurs. Through the use of advanced technologies, the remote chauffeurs can remotely operate the car's movement using various devices. This system is capable of monitoring the car's speed, distance from obstacles, and battery life, and transmitting this information to the remote chauffeurs in a clear and easy-to-understand format.

#### SOLUTION COMPONENTS:

##### Modules on TurtleBot3 :

- The mechanical control system: to achieve the basic motion functions of the TurtleBot3 car.

- The distance sensing system used for monitoring the surrounding environment: Using LiDAR to detect the distance of the car in different directions.

- The system used for monitoring the vehicle's status: real-time monitoring the car's battery power, speed, etc., and uploading the data to the PC server in real-time.

##### Server Modules:

- The transmission system used to remotely control the car: implemented using Arduino IDE.

- The system used to build an AR-based information interaction system: implemented using Unity.

- The system used to output specific car motion commands: implemented using ROS to control the car.

##### HRI modules:

- The gesture recognition system used to recognize gestures given by people and feed back to the central PC server.

- The device used for interaction between the car and people: transmitting real-time surrounding information of the car to the Hololens 2 glasses in video form.

#### CRITERION FOR SUCCESS:

- Functionality: The remote driving system needs to be able to facilitate interaction between the user and the vehicle, enabling the user to remotely control the vehicle's steering, acceleration, and deceleration functions.

- User experience: The user can obtain real-time information about the surrounding environment while driving the vehicle through the glasses, and control the vehicle's movement through gestures.

- Environmental parameter detection: The vehicle can obtain distance information about the environment and its own real-time information.

- Durability and stability: The server needs to maintain a stable connection between the vehicle and the user.

#### DISTRIBUTION OF WORK:

- ECE STUDENT PANG BO:

Implementing the ROS interaction with the PC, using the ROS platform to control the car's speed and direction.

- ECE STUDENT WEI JIAHAO:

Building the car, implementing environmental monitoring and video transmission, ensuring stable transmission of environmental information to the user.

Implementing speed measurement, obstacle distance detection, and battery level monitoring for the car.

- EE STUDENT ZHU KANGYU:

Designing the AR interaction, issuing AR information prompts when the car is overspeeding or approaching obstacles.

Implementing hand gesture recognition for interaction between hololens2 and PC.