Autonomous Drone Control by Object Detection

Abstract

While AI technologies are being developed in a variety of fields, there is concern about the shortage of AI human resources to carry them out. In learning about AI, it is important to understand not only the algorithms of AI, but also how to utilize AI. In university education, there are few opportunities to learn practical application of AI to other fields. To develop AI human resources, we created a class combining AI and robotics for first-year undergraduate students in engineering. In the class, students create an object detection AI model and control the drone's movement by detecting markers with the model.