Parking Lot Hawk - Aerial Drone
Autonomous drone for real-time parking lot occupancy monitoring
A senior capstone project focused on building an autonomous aerial system 🎮🚁 to assess real-time parking lot occupancy 🅿️🚗 using onboard computer vision.
This project combined robotics, embedded systems, and computer vision to tackle a logistics challenge. We designed, built, and deployed a quadcopter drone capable of autonomously navigating above parking lots and capturing live footage. We used the Navio flight controller and Raspberry Pi.
Project Introduction Video
Showcase Video
Video of some Flights
Flights only
Key Features
- Autonomous Flight: Utilized GPS and IMU.
- Mechanical Design: 3D printed our own drone.
- Computer Vision: Implemented watershed based object detection to identify parking spots.
