HunterDrone

If an enemy flies, we can destroy it!

Problem

Drones Are Now A Big Threat

Although drones have proved to be quite handy in both civil and military context, they also possess great threat in our society. While their usage increases day by day world-wide, some owners use their drone with malicious intents. Drones are hard to detect and even harder to eliminate. In order to eliminate drones that possess threat, even eagles are trained. But this solution is not very efficient given that it is not easy to train eagles and, of course, they may get injured.

What is HunterDrone?

An Autonomous Drone Eliminating System

HunterDrone is an Computer Vision-powered drone, which is an alternative and efficient solution to the drone threats. Our hunter drone gets alert when it is warned by the radar in the region and takes action. It searches the area, detects and tracks the hostile drone and eventually executes a kamikaze dive maneuver. HunterDrone does not need to have communication with the radar after getting alert and it performs the operation autonomously.

Objective

Help keeping your airfield safe

Detect

It searches the location and identifies the hostile drone using You Only Look Once.

Track

It performs computer vision based tracking utilizing the gimbal camera.

Destroy

It makes a kamikaze dive to eliminate the hostile drone.

Methodology

Combining the lead research platform for drones with state-of-the-art, real-time object detection system

HunterDrone processes the real time image coming from its gimbal camera via YoloV3. It keeps the hostile at the center of the camera's point of view and adjusts its movements thanks to PID controllers. In case of losing the hostile, it starts searching from the area where the hostile is last seen.


Our Team

Computer Engineers from METU

Advisor, Erol Şahin

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Alperen Yavaşcan

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Cenker Altınbay

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Şahin Kasap

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Taha Yasin Erol

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