Development of an AI-based Drone Autonomy Platform & Applications for ING Robotic

开发基于人工智能的无人机自主平台

• 批准号: 557339-2020
• 负责人: Méthot, NathalieN
• 金额: $ 5.46万
• 依托单位: La Cité collégiale
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 2
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=755671
• 关键词: Development; AI; based; Drone; Autonomy

The objective of this proposal is to develop an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform (development and run-timeenvironments) for ING Robotic (ING Robotic Avionics Inc.) drones in order to make them as autonomous aspossible in the execution of their mission. This platform will enable local intelligence embedded inside thedrone to make local real-time decisions without having to communicate with the Ground Control Station. INGRobotic drones, current and future, have a range of 10 to 100 km, and may operate beyond the range oftelemetry, without mobile internet, or even GPS; therefore, the ability to execute their mission autonomously iscritical. With the AI Platform, we also plan to deliver one set of Applications for the autonomous visualinspection of power lines, pipelines, rail tracks, roads and bridges. Our approach to applied research is tocombine Agile software development with the Design Science Research in Information Systems methodology,where the research outcome is an artifact (the Drone AI Platform and the Applications). This applied researchwill be undertaken jointly by the Center of Expertise in Smart Prototyping (CEPI) of Collège La Cité and INGRobotic. The benefits for ING Robotic would be an increased productivity for their application developers, ashorter time-to-market for their products, and a lower dependency on Artificial Intelligence skills which arenotoriously difficult to acquire on the market. Another longer-term benefit is an increased differentiation oftheir products against any competition. The benefits for the Collège are a focused training of our students in anarea most relevant to industry needs, and a higher hiring rate of these students. The main benefits to the appliedresearch discipline are an increase in the discipline knowledge base with the addition of real-time embedded AIknowledge, know-how, and software technology which are deeply relevant to the industry needs.

该提案的目的是为机器人（Ing机器人航空电子公司）无人机开发人工智能（AI）平台（开发和运行时间环境），以使其成为执行任务的自主性同化。该平台将使嵌入无人机内部的本地情报能够做出本地实时决策，而不必与地面控制站进行通信。当前和未来的无人机无人机的范围为10到100公里，并且可能超出遥测范围，没有移动互联网，甚至没有GPS；因此，执行其自主任务的能力。借助AI平台，我们还计划提供一组应用程序，以自主的视觉线索，管道，铁轨，道路和桥梁的自动视觉量。我们应用研究的方法是通过信息系统方法论设计科学研究的托姆贝恩敏捷软件开发，其中研究结果是工件（无人机AI平台和应用程序）。这项应用的研究将由CollègeLaCité和Inmrobotic的智能原型（CEPI）专业知识中心共同进行。配备机器人的好处将提高其应用程序开发人员的生产率，Asherter在产品上市的市场时间以及对人工智能技能的依赖性较低，而人工智能技能很难在市场上获得。另一个长期的好处是，对任何竞争的差异化增加了。对Collège的好处是对我们的学生进行与行业需求最相关的Anarea的专注培训，这些学生的招聘率更高。 AppliedResearch学科的主要好处是通过添加与行业需求非常相关的实时嵌入式AIKNOW，专有技术和软件技术，增加了学科知识库。