Autonomous Drones Web Lecture Module

DESCRIPTION

Both fixed wing and multicopter UAVs have had a tremendous growth in many applications, such as:

1. Media Production
2. Infrastructure Inspection
3. Surveillance
4. Semantic mapping
5. Agriculture inspection
6. Transportation of goods.

This CVML Web Module focuses on Autonomous Drones, Drone Swarms. Drone Safety, Regulations, Drone Vision  and their applications in Surveillance and Cinematography.

First, an introduction to UAV multicopters  as well as to multiple drone systems are presented. Then, drone mission planning and control is overviewed, to be complemented by a lecture on drone mission simulations. Drone communications are overviewed, focusing on drone2ground multiple drone LTE communications, notably on multiple source video compression and streaming. Imaging for Drone Safety is also detailed, e.g., for crowd mapping and emergency landing site detection. To this end, Drone Regulatory Issues are overviewed.

An in-depth presentation of drone computational cinematography is provided that is useful in many applications, besides media production. Special Cinematography Issues encountered in Sports Filming are also presented. Drone Human-Computer Interface (HCI) issues are detailed both for mission planning and safety monitoring. Several Multiple Drone Media Production experiments are detailed. Publicly available Multidrone Datasets are overviewed. An extremely important drone imaging application, notably, UAV infrastructure inspection is overviewed as well.

LECTURE LIST

1. Introduction to UAV Multicopters
2. Introduction to Multiple Drone Systems
3. Multiple Drone Mission Planning and Control
4. Drone Swarms
5. Drone Mission Simulations
6. Drone Communication Networks
7. Multiple Drone Communications
8. Imaging for Drone Safety
9. Drone Regulatory Issues
10. Drone Cinematography
11. Cinematography Issues in Sports Filming
12. Drone Human-Centered Interfaces (HCI)
13. Multiple Drone Media Production
14. Multidrone Datasets

CVML WEB LECTURE MODULE SCHEDULE

This module has been designed to be mastered within 1 month (or less), if you have proper background (at least early undergraduate student in an EE, ECE, CS, CSE or any Engineering or Exact Sciences Department).
We propose that you follow the above mentioned  Lecture order. You may want to skip few Lectures that might not be of immediate interest to you for later study.

On average you can study 4 lectures per week. The related effort is as follows:
Lecture pdf study and filling the related understanding questionnaire: 1-2 hours per lecture (on average, depending on your background).