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Ethan Nowery NIST Journal 8
Author: Ethan Nowery, Email: nowery@unlv.nevada.edu
Date Last Modified: 07/28/2024
Week 8
Photo of the Week
Last week I posted a picture of the ant farm in which I drew a red line to show the path that the drone would follow. After finishing the ant farm this last week, we were able to fly a DJI Avada drone through the course to test it out. This is a clip from one of the initial flights. It shows the drone flying to the end of the first level, moving around and trying to score points on the visual task in the corner while fighting its own turbulence. Then the drone has to use the visual task to line up with the 18“ by 18” hole in the floor to descend to the next level without crashing. From there, it continues on to the tasks on the second level and third.
New Person
This week we traveled to the Montgomery County Fire Training Facility. There they have a high bay building that has a mockup of several storefronts and a street. Inside this building, the mockup is 4 stories tall that you can walk through. They want to use the area to fly drones for terrain mapping. There we met multiple fire fighters and their division chief as well.