The University of Pittsburgh - Of The Commonwealth System Of Higher Education received a $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems. This grant, under the NSF Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, will fund a 3-year research project to develop an effective drone obstacle avoidance system using innovative event camera technology. The key products to be delivered include:
- Bio-inspired event filtering algorithms and architecture for drone obstacle detection.
- Bio-inspired event-matching algorithms for localizing obstacles.
- An open-source hardware-software interface platform to enable rapid prototyping of drone obstacle avoidance solutions.
This research aims to overcome key challenges in realizing the vision of using drones for deliveries, by advancing drone obstacle avoidance capabilities through a bio-inspired, event-camera based approach. The open-source platform developed under this grant is expected to lower the barrier to entry for further drone-related research and innovation.
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