Project Title:

Drone Autonomous TakeOff Landing and Mapping

1. Contact (name, email, phone):

Colin Szeto - cszeto@ucsd.edu

Siddharth Saha - sisaha@ucsd.edu

2. Availability for Kickoff and Weekly Meetings:

Student teams are to meet with the project mentor on a weekly basis, typically at the sponsor’s
facilities. The kickoff meeting is especially important. Face-to-face meetings are preferred, but online
meetings are also helpful.

Please indicate if you are available to meet during the kickoff period:
● Week of Jun. 27, 2022. (yes/no): Yes

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3. Company website:
http://triton-ai.eng.ucsd.edu
https://www.teaminspiration.global/robotx
https://www.dst.defence.gov.au/event/2022-maritime-robotx-challenge
http://robotx.org/programs/robotx-challenge-2022/

4. Project Description:

Are you interested in joining a race team that competes in autonomous vehicles?

Do you want to be part of UC San Diego robotics history by joining the TritonAI Race Team?

Then read on…

4.1 Background and motivation:

RobotX

“RobotX is the most advanced competition that

RoboNation hosts. Teams of college students from
around the world build on a 16′ WAM-V
manufactured by Marine Advanced Robotics for
their Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV) and
design and build their own Unmanned Aerial
Vehicle (UAV) so the two systems can work
together to complete tasks. Previously the competition was for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
(AUVs) working with the ASV. The competition tasks are
designed so teams will innovate to increase proficiency
and inventiveness for maritime robotics.”

4.2 Objectives:

We are looking for students to join the TritonAI Racing

team to work on RobotX to develop Autonomous
TakeOff, Landing, and Mapping of the RobotX over-water
competition mission area .

You will be integrating hardware and developing code

using embedded computers and computer vision to guide
a drone that needs to take off and land from/on a
roboboat. Moreover, the code that will develop will be
used to generate a map of the missions area and transfer
that to the robobot control system.

You will be fusing information from smart cameras such

as OAK-D Lite and RTK GPS.
“

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OAK-D Lite brings the superpowers of Spatial AI to the price point necessary to unlock all sorts of
applications.

It features 300,000-point stereo depth, an

integrated 12.3MP camera capable of 4k video
(with onboard encoding), and 1.4 TOPS of
neural inference (AI) processing for real-time
object detection and semantic segmentation.
“

4.3 Skill Sets Needed in the Project:

Students will have access to hardware

and to the mobile robots for development
and testing.

During the first weeks of the project, you

will have a chance to develop the
necessary technical skills to be successful
in this project. Here are some of the
expectation:

● Have a good can-do attitude

● Not being afraid of working on areas you are not familiar with
● Do independent research not expecting to be giving all the solutions by your
mentor(s)
● Ask for help when need from previous ECE 191 teams and Triton-AI team members
● Don’t be shy to reach out to professionals in the industry and researchers in other
universities
● Not being afraid of making mistakes, always managing the risks and safety of
people, to the surroundings, and the robot.
○ Understand that you are working on cutting-edge technology, so things will
go wrong a few times first, we need to keep that in mind and be safe.
○ Understanding that you are at school, mistakes will happen, let's learn from
them while being safe. Let's prevent them from happening again.
● Python and C++ programming experience will be very useful.
● Committed to at least 10 hours per week per student (100 hour person-hours of effort
over ten weeks of the class)

4.4 Are there any citizenship or confidentiality issues required of the student team?

No

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