Computer-aided military drone with human-detecting capability using OpenCV

• Main Authors: Delloro, Anthony Limuel F., Gochangco, Reuben Philippe B., Limqueco, Jan Edison S., Urbino, Glen Ernan A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2011
• Subjects: Drone aircraft; Air pilots, Military; Communication; Electrical and Electronics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/10663
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper describes the implementation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that can detect humans standing in the upright position. A remote-controlled helicopter is modified in which it is equipped with a camera and a global positioning system (GPS) chip. The camera is able to detect a human-being by sending its video feed to a computer through wireless connection. The software, Open Computer Vision (OpenCV), in the computer processes the video feed and determines whether there is a human being in the frame. The GPS chip was utilized to obtain the GPS coordinates of the UAV.