Engineering an Intelligent Drone Students Hope to Pilot Drone with Onboard Computer
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Since 1916 Volume 100, Number 9 www.marquettewire.org Thursday, November 5, 2015 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 SPJ Award-Winning Newspaper Student businesses Editorial Basketball exhibitions Undergraduates discuss One day of service can Point guard rotation, Ellenson components of owing their make a difference family reunion storylines to watch own company PAGE 6 PAGE 10 PAGE 12 Engineering an intelligent drone Students hope to pilot drone with onboard computer By Jennifer Walter [email protected] Andres Echeverri Guevara, a graduate student in the College of Engineering, is building a drone programmed to automatically fol- low a moving target by itself. Echeverri Guevara is work- ing on the project as part of his master’s degree thesis. With help from a few other students, he and Henry Medeiros, assistant elec- trical and computer engineering professor, have been working on the project for the past year. “So far, there are no drones that are capable of following some- body or something with computer Photo courtesy of Marquette’s Computer Vision & Sensing Sytems Lab vision,” Echeverri Guevara said. In a video shot by Echeverri Graduate student Andres Echeverri Guevara and assistant professor Henry Medeiros used funds from a start-up to design a drone with tracking ability. Guevara, the drone, or unmanned air vehicle, follows one of his sun is in front of your target,” College of Engineering. The lab a remote, there are no commer- following a target. friends, or the “target,” past the Medeiros said. works to create methods and sys- cially-produced ones that follow The drone sends images to a St. Joan of Arc Chapel. Once the Medeiros and Echeverri Gue- tems with information gathered a target automatically. computer, which in turn pro- target moves under the Olin Engi- vara teamed up with an anony- by multidimensional sensors, ac- So far the project’s money has cesses the images and sends them neering building’s overhang, the mous local startup that focuses cording to its website. The lab gone to early test drones and back to the drone. Some of this drone has trouble following. specifically on video. The startup also collaborates with researchers electronics for building pieces process is done with WiFi, but The drone can become con- company is funding the project as from other outside fields. and cameras. A few of the early the end goal is to create a com- fused when the target rotates or a gift to Marquette. Although there are drones on test drones were refurbished puter small enough to place in changes position quickly. The project operates in Mar- the market today that are capa- Roombas, which had cameras at- a drone so the processing takes “The most confusing (for the quette’s Computer Vision and ble of following moving entities tached to them and were used to drone) are backlights or if the Sensing Systems Lab in the when controlled by a computer or test the concept of automatically See Drones, Page 7 Bro-Yo neighbors MU helps Jesuit marketing led by the Association of Je- Madison Square Garden and the Pope’s visit inspired suit Colleges and Universities. Jesuit Educated hashtag. not hindered Chief marketing and communi- A smaller version of the Phil- extended hours. far-reaching Jesuit cation officers from more than adelphia banner hangs in the After a late-night Bro-Yo’s extended hours half of the 28 AJCU schools Alumni Memorial Union. are 11 p.m. to 3:30 a.m. on Educated campaign got together to capitalize on “Our goal was to tell the pub- hours extension, Thursdays, Fridays and Satur- the Pope’s Jesuit background. lic that if you like the values of days. They have been in effect By Julie Grace They met at Loyola Univer- Pope Francis, then you’ll like others weigh in for a few weeks. [email protected] sity Maryland in April to the values of Jesuit schools,” The restaurant hopes to at- discuss their options. said Deanna Howes, AJCU di- tract many customers during The finished campaign in- rector of communications and By Thomas Salinas the new hours. 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[email protected] night food option that students to the United States prompted ner of the Pope with the tag- OMC and Tim Cigelske, Mar- have in addition to the sur- the #JesuitEducated market- line “transformational leaders quette’s social media director, Restaurants surrounding rounding Qdoba, Papa John’s, ing campaign, which includes are Jesuit educated” at a largely assisted with the on- Bro-Yo Campustown on West Real Chili, Dogg Haus and a social media plan from Mar- Philadelphia train station, a line efforts by planning or ex- Wells Street said their busi- Jimmy John’s restaurants. quette’s Office of Marketing Medium microsite, adver- ecuting posts on the microsite, nesses will not suffer from the and Communication. tisements in The New York See Jesuit, Page 5 breakfast restaurant’s newly See Bro-Yo, Page 5 Overall, the campaign is Times, a digital sign outside INDEX NEWS MARQUEE OPINIONS SPORTS CALENDAR...........................................3 Why Title IX was revised Fireside chat Women face BIG EAST foes MUPD REPORTS.................................3 New Office of Civil Rights MURPHY: Musing Sensenbrenner Volleyball hosts final home series MARQUEE............................................8 guidelines prompt policy changes. reading room and a chat with Lovell. against conference rivals. OPINIONS.......................................10 PAGE 2 PAGE 10 SPORTS...........................................12 Picking Bublr location Sharing your favorite band Possible places for the bike station ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ HUGHES: To love a band and see to go are AMU, under library bridge. Social justice themed production runs Nov. 12 through the 22nd. them rise to stardom is bittersweet. PAGE 7 PAGE 8 PAGE 11 PAGE 15 2 TRIBUNE NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2015 Self-balancing scooter use grows on campus popularity, no laws for self-bal- Police say there is ancing scooter usage exist. In the eyes of the law, self-bal- no law prohibiting ancing scooters are most closely related to Segways. They are mo- the use of them torized vehicles that often share the sidewalk with pedestrians. By Jennifer Walter “Motorists tend to react to [email protected] the speed of pedestrians, so if you’re moving in a pedestri- Marquette students are taking an kind of walkway, then you a cue from Tupac Shakur’s “Pic- could potentially put yourself ture Me Rolling” as they cruise at risk with pedestrians,” Mar- around campus on their self-bal- quette Police Department Chief ancing scooters. Paul Mascari said. It isn’t uncommon to walk to Mascari has not witnessed any class and share the sidewalk with major incidents involving self- someone riding on their “self- balancing scooters. He said no balancing scooter” or “Segway one has requested that the uni- without handlebars.” versity regulate the usage of self- Self-balancing scooters can balancing scooters on campus. be bought online from sites The issues that have arisen like eBay or Amazon and have been mainly off campus cost $250 and up. and involve theft. Jake Nikolay, a freshman in the “We have seen elsewhere in the Photo by Nolan Bollier/[email protected] College of Communication, saw city that self-balancing scooters many basketball players riding Students debate the benefits and disadvantages of using a self-balancing scooter to get around campus. have become a target for crimi- around on self-balancing scoot- nals,” Mascari said. ers and decided to buy one. than walking.” especially get irritated when I personally want to own one. Mascari advises self-balancing “I get a lot of people asking Although self-balancing see basketball players and ath- “I wouldn’t bring it to campus scooter users to make sure they to ride it,” Nikolay said. “Most scooters fascinate some, oth- letes using them. Sometimes with me everywhere because are aware of their surroundings people are pretty cool with it.” ers are skeptical of their I’ve seen them inside, which sometimes they’re practical, but and to use their devices in well- Nikolay finds himself us- practicality and necessity. I don’t understand.” sometimes they’re not,” Augus- lit and well-populated areas. ing his self-balancing “They look cool, but I think Bibin Augustine, a freshman tine said. “You can pretty much “It takes people a while to scooter nearly every day. they’re pretty pointless,” said in the College of Health Sci- just out-walk them.” catch up whenever there’s a “It saves a lot of time, usu- Annah Horst, a freshman in the ences, finds self-balancing scoot- Because this new mode of new mode of transportation out ally,” he said. “It’s faster College of Communication. “I ers to be cool, but would never transportation is still gaining there,” Mascari said. Title IX policy changed Revisions meet new guidelines set by the Office for First, there is an investigation Civil Rights, a sub-agency of of a complaint. Then, the infor- the U.S. Department of Educa- mation is assigned to one of the guidelines by Office tion with regional offices scat- deputy Title IX coordinators. tered across the country. There is an interview between of Civil Rights Marquette entered into a vol- the complainant and deputy co- By Clara Hatcher untary resolution with the Of- ordinator and a chance to coor- [email protected] fice for Civil Rights in Septem- dinate a university response. ber after being investigated for Taylor said the investiga- Marquette recently revised a June incident when a former tor is the person that inter- its Title IX Sexual Harass- female student filed a complaint views, talks to witnesses and ment, Discrimination and alleging she was harassed by a decides whether or not there Sexual Misconduct Policy, former male student.