Gitarth Vaishnav

Projects

Four case studies from defence, disaster response, robotics and startups, and a few more projects.

Illustration: noisy detections from different sensors are merged into one fused track with an uncertainty ellipse.

2023 to now · DroneShield

Sensor fusion and threat analysis

The engine that merges detections from different sensors into tracks, and the first AI threat analysis for DroneSentry C2, DroneShield's command-and-control product suite.

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Illustration: three separate aerial survey scenes, with a koala detected in forest canopy, a crocodile in a river and a shark off a coast.

2022 · UTS intelligent Drone Lab

Aerial search and rescue

Computer vision and operator software for finding people and animals from the air. Used in flood regions in several countries, and now for sharks, crocodiles and koalas.

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Illustration: planned paths for an aerial, a ground and an underwater vehicle, shown as three separate scenes without GPS.

2022 to 2023 · UTS Robotics Institute

Autonomy for uncrewed systems

Path planning and multi-agent coordination for aerial, ground and underwater robots without GPS, running on edge hardware.

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Illustration: an X-ray frame with one item flagged by a detection box.

2022 · UTS Techcelerator

IntelligentScanners

An edge-deployed prototype that reads X-ray images to flag threats in high-security venues. Winner of Most Technically Feasible Prototype.

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More projects

Threat detection of UAVs

Jan 2023 · Honours

Machine learning models that assess and classify the threat potential of UAVs for counter-drone applications. This became the foundation of the threat analysis in DroneSentry C2.

  • Python
  • TensorFlow
  • Defence

Pepper robot interaction

2022 · UTS

AI-powered applications for the Pepper humanoid robot, including chess and noughts and crosses from camera input, and vision, speech recognition and information retrieval for natural interaction.

  • Python
  • OpenCV
  • PyTorch
  • Speech