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Development of AI Platform for Smart Drone - Intelligent Flight: Due to its high mobility and the ability to fly in the sky, the drone has inspired more and more innovative applications/services in recent years. The goal of this project is to resolve the problem of blindly flying an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, which a drone in our case) when it is out of human sight or the range of wireless communication, and three major research and development directions will be considered in this project. Three artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, namely, smart sensing, smart control, and smart simulation, are applied in this project. Smart sensing - a flight system is developed, which can avoid the obstacles, complete a flight mission, and land safely. Smart control - an intelligence flight control system and a light-weighted somatosensory vest are developed. Smart simulation - a cost-effective training system and a 3D model simplification method are designed.

Based on deep learning camera/radar object detection and tracking technology, the proposed road side unit (RSU) system has achieved over 95％ vehicle detection accuracy within 100m detection range in the processing performance of 10fps under nVidia Jetson Xavier platform. Compared to the 32-beam lidar based RSU, the proposed RSU achieves 97％ reduction of sensor cost that exhibits high competitiveness in deployment cost. The proposed RSU system has been verified in fields and we are now cooperating with an industry partner to deploy the RSU system in both Tainan and Tao-Yuan cities.

Quote:br / “It is worth giving up some things because of dream pursuing” Professor SHOU-DE, LIN  at the department of computer scienceInformation Engineering in National Taiwan University, Chief Machine Learning Scientist in Appier, said “An escape from comfort zone to seek new challenges makes my life become more colorful.”br /  br / Content:br /  br / Given qualified for being as the freshman of National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Professor Lin chose the department of electrical engineering in NTU as the first priority in Joint College Entrance Examination (JCEE). Though the undergraduate education  did not cultivate him the passion on the field of electrical engineering, Professor Lin said, however, he was still recommended for further study at the graduate institute of electronics engineering in NTU due to his talentsoutstanding academic performance.

The technology uses cathodic arc deposition combined with electromagnet field control and optical emission spectroscopy (OES) for the deposition of new functional high entropy alloy (HEA) nitride coatings. The HEA nitride coatings possessed such high hardness and excellent hydrophobicity with low surface energy which are beneficial for high speed dry cutting. Finally, the coatings were deposited on the micro end mills for cutting test of printed circuit board. The HEA ACZN coated tools can possess high wear resistance and outperform the uncoated tools at least 4 times of tool lives.