The researcher’s goal is to develop smart air corridors, AI tools for autonomous aviation vehicles
Windracers fellow candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, Jayanth Shreekumar, a doctoral candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering, is a non-white four aircraft at AI for the Smart Operations Center at Purdue University Airport’s Digital, Autonomous and Extended Aviation (AIDA3) Center. Monitors flight implementation. (Purdue University Photo/Kelsey Lefever)
First-year doctoral candidate Jayanth Shreekumar knew Purdue University’s global reputation due to his strengths in engineering, science and technology.
However, the connection to advance his academic background through Purdue took place in an unlikely place. The music concert on campus features Indian classical singer and composer Bharat Sundal. There, Schlikmer met Aniketo Bella, a professor of computer science at Purdue. Aniketo Bella introduced him to Sabin Brunswicker, a Purdue professor who leads a new research center focused on autonomous aviation and advanced air mobility artificial intelligence.
“I applied for Purdue for two reasons. It is one of the best engineering schools in the world, and my twin brother Anant is also earning a PhD from Purdue in Computer Science,” this fall. “I was introduced to Professor Brunswicker of Iyer 3 by Professor Bella, whom I met at the Sundal Music Concert. I held a follow-up meeting with Professor Bella about my interests and he was just right. I introduced it to the location.”
Its location is an exciting role in supporting a multicenter research team connected to AIDA3. It was appointed officially for the first major output of the Purdue’s Thysimual Intelligence Institute (IPAI) within Purdue Computers, the digital, autonomous, and extended aviation AI. It is also part of the Institute and Center in the Discovery Park area.
With an interest in AI, machine learning and computer vision, Shreekumar is investigating how to apply these tools to the physical world to enhance the safety and capabilities of self-driving cars. To promote these efforts, Shri Kumar is part of an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Purdue and other partner institutional researchers. Their focus: develop the necessary infrastructure and establish the country’s first smart air corridor.
“I work closely with researchers and technical experts from various universities and industry partnerships, and enjoy interdisciplinary collaboration with a team led by Professor Brunswicker,” said PES University in India. says Srikmar, who has earned his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree. UCLA’s ECE.
“Our goal is to bring not only practical impacts, but scientific contributions. For example, we will develop and innovate new computer vision technologies and algorithms for AIDA3 Vision, and will be integrated into Windracers Ultra. I hope to tackle a very novel problem in computer vision.”
Windracers Ultra, named Earhart, is a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) manufactured by AIDA3 founding partner Windracers, and has a range of 600 miles. UK-based Windracers donated two Ultra aircraft (the second Ultra aircraft) “called Armstrong) for AIDA3 to use in its “lifetime from the lab” research efforts.
Promoted by AIDA3, Purdue researchers and collaborators from five universities are developing aerial autonomy in a new field of science called “Airtonomy.” The field aims to summarise mathematical theory-based models and data-driven approaches and use proprietary testing facilities to verify the safety and reliability of autonomous vehicles.
To move from digital experiments to physical experiments and real-world demonstrations of safety in the air autonomy, AIDA3’s vision is to build the American smart crossway. This planned 200-mile air corridor means unweatted aviation vehicles will be freight, medicine and people from Purdue’s West Lafayette campus to the Naval Surface Warfare Center and Muscatatac Urban Training Center in Indianapolis, Southern Indiana. can be safely transported.
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Smart Air Corridor’s Brain Trust is an innovative testing facility known as the Smart Operations Center (SOC) at Purdue University Airport. This living laboratory is equipped with high-resolution screen grid walls, along with motion capture cameras and VR/AR technology, to promote immersive interaction with the “outer” space. Researchers can also use wearable devices such as high-performance eye tracking glasses, mobile brain wave graphing devices, and heart rate sensors.
Since AIDA3 was launched in April, researchers at the center have said how operators physically located in SOC can use research tools and AI systems created by AIDA3 to make free ultra remote flights It focuses on showing how it can be done.
Currently, you need 10 people to operate one UAV. The AIDA3 team is trying to equip a single operator to adjust up to 100 UAVs simultaneously. Purdue Center’s goal is to demonstrate a 1-10 ratio and showcase the ability to operate 10 ultras with one operator by the end of 2025.
Windracers Fellow Shreekumar is looking at ways to use computer vision to advance Ultra’s capabilities using cutting-edge AI technology. He also examines the mental workloads that operators experience through a variety of modalities, such as webcams, brain waves, and eye trackers.
“This is very useful if you want to have a single operator control multiple ultras at the same time. It’s most important to make sure the operator is not overwhelmed,” says Schliekmer. “The eyes are the most important organ that connects us to the outside world, allowing us to interact with it. Replicating this into a robot is important to achieve a true humanoid robot. .”
If successful, AIDA3’s “breakthroughs can truly transform a massive society,” adds Brunswicker.
A PhD student Chuhao Deng, who has earned his Bachelor and Masters in Aviation and Astronaut from Purdue, works as a Windracer Fellow at Smart Crossways and provides deep learning for human-centered air traffic control. I’m researching applications.
“Applying my current research could have a significant impact on how humans interact with operational systems in critical safety settings,” Deng says. “For example, an operating system can help ensure human cognitive states such as workloads and stress, as well as safety and efficiency of the system, and ultimately help to achieve a 1:100 vision. Responding to situational awareness. From there, my next short-term goal is to complete the formulation and algorithm development of the above research work problem and implement the work in real life.”
A key part of the planned smart crossway is Purdue’s unmanned proof ground, or puppies, with no 15 miles wide. Geographically organized within a triangle near Purdue’s West Lafayette campus, Pup “collects five unique indoor and outdoor facilities and infrastructure components that ensure that lab-to-life research is quickly repeated. , says Brunswicker.
Other Purdue graduate students who work as peers on the AIDA3 project include Worawais “Willis” Sribunma, aerospace and astronaut, Doguhan Yeke of computer science, and Liangqi Yuan of electrical and computer engineering. And AIDA3 leaders are embarking on recruitment campaigns to attract more graduate student fellows for innovative projects.
“AIDA3 offers a very unique, interdisciplinary opportunity that allows peers to learn a lot and grow a wider vision,” says Deng.
Shreekumar added: “Our center is made up of people from various universities at Purdue. We work with polytechnics, engineering, agriculture, science, liberal arts and Windracers engineers. Our thinking is the way we think about the startup company. It’s very similar to. We all learn from each other and come up with exciting innovations.”
