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Volume 100, Number 9
Thursday, November 5, 2015
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Engineering an intelligent drone Students hope to pilot drone with onboard computer By Jennifer Walter
jennifer.walter@marquette.edu
Andres Echeverri Guevara, a graduate student in the College of Engineering, is building a drone programmed to automatically follow a moving target by itself. Echeverri Guevara is working on the project as part of his master’s degree thesis. With help from a few other students, he and Henry Medeiros, assistant electrical 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 somebody or something with computer vision,” Echeverri Guevara said. In a video shot by Echeverri Guevara, the drone, or unmanned air vehicle, follows one of his friends, or the “target,” past the St. Joan of Arc Chapel. Once the target moves under the Olin Engineering building’s overhang, the drone has trouble following. The drone can become confused when the target rotates or changes position quickly. “The most confusing (for the drone) are backlights or if the
Photo courtesy of Marquette’s Computer Vision & Sensing Sytems Lab
Graduate student Andres Echeverri Guevara and assistant professor Henry Medeiros used funds from a start-up to design a drone with tracking ability.
sun is in front of your target,” Medeiros said. Medeiros and Echeverri Guevara teamed up with an anonymous local startup that focuses specifically on video. The startup company is funding the project as a gift to Marquette. The project operates in Marquette’s Computer Vision and Sensing Systems Lab in the
College of Engineering. The lab works to create methods and systems with information gathered by multidimensional sensors, according to its website. The lab also collaborates with researchers from other outside fields. Although there are drones on the market today that are capable of following moving entities when controlled by a computer or
a remote, there are no commercially-produced ones that follow a target automatically. So far the project’s money has gone to early test drones and electronics for building pieces and cameras. A few of the early test drones were refurbished Roombas, which had cameras attached to them and were used to test the concept of automatically
following a target. The drone sends images to a computer, which in turn processes the images and sends them back to the drone. Some of this process is done with WiFi, but the end goal is to create a computer small enough to place in a drone so the processing takes See Drones, Page 7
Bro-Yo neighbors MU helps Jesuit marketing Pope’s visit inspired not hindered far-reaching Jesuit
After a late-night hours extension, others weigh in By Thomas Salinas
thomas.salinas@marquette.edu
Restaurants surrounding Bro-Yo Campustown on West Wells Street said their businesses will not suffer from the breakfast restaurant’s newly INDEX CALENDAR...........................................3 MUPD REPORTS.................................3 MARQUEE............................................8 OPINIONS.......................................10 SPORTS...........................................12
extended hours. Bro-Yo’s extended hours are 11 p.m. to 3:30 a.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. They have been in effect for a few weeks. The restaurant hopes to attract many customers during the new hours. It’s a new latenight food option that students have in addition to the surrounding Qdoba, Papa John’s, Real Chili, Dogg Haus and Jimmy John’s restaurants. See Bro-Yo, Page 5 NEWS
Pope Francis’ September visit to the United States prompted the #JesuitEducated marketing campaign, which includes a social media plan from Marquette’s Office of Marketing and Communication. Overall, the campaign is
led by the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. Chief marketing and communication officers from more than half of the 28 AJCU schools got together to capitalize on the Pope’s Jesuit background. They met at Loyola University Maryland in April to discuss their options. The finished campaign includes a 50-by-70-foot banner of the Pope with the tagline “transformational leaders are Jesuit educated” at a Philadelphia train station, a Medium microsite, advertisements in The New York Times, a digital sign outside
Madison Square Garden and the Jesuit Educated hashtag. A smaller version of the Philadelphia banner hangs in the Alumni Memorial Union. “Our goal was to tell the public that if you like the values of Pope Francis, then you’ll like the values of Jesuit schools,” said Deanna Howes, AJCU director of communications and Fordham University alumna. OMC and Tim Cigelske, Marquette’s social media director, largely assisted with the online efforts by planning or executing posts on the microsite,
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Educated campaign By Julie Grace
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Fireside chat
Why Title IX was revised
MURPHY: Musing Sensenbrenner reading room and a chat with Lovell.
New Office of Civil Rights guidelines prompt policy changes.
Picking Bublr location
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Women face BIG EAST foes
Volleyball hosts final home series against conference rivals.
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Possible places for the bike station to go are AMU, under library bridge.
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‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
Social justice themed production runs Nov. 12 through the 22nd. PAGE 8
Sharing your favorite band
HUGHES: To love a band and see them rise to stardom is bittersweet. PAGE 11
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