Robots, Drones and Generative AI: Exploring Cutting Edge Technologies with HPCC Systems in a School Campus Environment
School safety security, and wellbeing have been a driving force for our most recent academic partnership with HPCC Systems. The first phase of our security project began in 2020 with an autonomous mobile sentry designed, built and programmed with facial recognition software developed by our students. This project was very effective, and we wanted to enhance the capabilities by increasing response times for any security concern with the use of drones. This latest version uses autonomous drone technology to enhance the security features of our school by detecting unauthorized personnel on campus, assisting security in response to active shooter situations, gathering information during lockdowns and to track the student/staff evacuation process if initiated. In parallel to these latest efforts, a recent HPCC Systems summer internship project investigated the possibility on whether generative AI could be used to generate human-like responses in our autonomous security robot robots. During the internship, an interface through HPCC Systems was constructed to interface interact with GPT and ChatGPT. Therefore, we expect to be able to use a standard neural network to identify different emotions given video of a person and these these emotions would then be processed by the interface to create a call to OpenAI’s API from which an appropriate response would be generated. This response would be designed to change based on the emotions classified by the neural network and most importantly due to the use of generative AI would be different even with the same emotional classification. Even though this is all still in the prototype phase, our projects have proven to be a great proof of concept developed by high school students to deal with the reality of our times.
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