Terrawarden Drone Cleanup
projects > wpi-mqp-terrawardenProject Type
Drone
My Roles
Programmer
Team Size
6
Timeline
Aug 2024 - May 2025
Our drone with all electronics and manipulator attached
The CAD Model of our drone and manipulator
A sample output from the intel realsense camera
Made With: PythonComputer VisionDeep LearningGit
This project is a work in progress - an expanded article with more links + videos will be added here soon!
Quick Blurb:
- Designed and developed an aerial manipulator capable of detecting and collecting litter found on roadsides and highway medians
- Created a perception stack that uses an Intel RealSense to perform efficient (3ms) bounding box detection in open environments
- Evaluated YOLOv11 performance across multiple datasets, ultimately deciding to use a custom dataset generated using Blender