What is the goal of this project?
I’m a rising junior in high school at American Heritage Boca/Delray and at school, I have the unique opportunity to apply the skills and developments from this internship to a tangible security system. My goal is to integrate HPCC into my school’s security robot by developing facial recognition capabilities on the HPCC Cloud Native Platform.
I’m going to use a database of student photos, train the facial recognition model using HPCC Cloud, tag each picture, and test the accuracy of my model with a new image of the student. Ideally it will display whether or not the person in the photo is a student at American Heritage and spit out the student’s ID number. The big picture idea is that this facial recognition model will be compatible and work in conjunction with devices that are going to be on our security robot. Touchscreens, Alexa Voice Commands, Virtual Reality environments, etc. will be the platform through which information gathered by the model will be displayed in an interactive, user-friendly way for students, staff, parents, and any visitors.
This internship project will be an extension of Aramis Tanelus and Jack Fields, two former American Heritage School Boca/Delray students and LexisNexis summer interns. Aramis developed a ROS package that collects and sprays data from sensors into HPCC Systems. Jack used photos of faces to train a GNN model. I will extend this project by creating my own model and deploying it to the cloud. To successfully integrate the HPCC Cloud System into the American Heritage School Security Robot, I will train a facial recognition model using HPCC Cloud, tag each picture, and test the model by using a new image of the person to see if the model correctly identifies the student. The robot will be able to output an answer to this question: YES or NO- is this person a student at American Heritage? The potential next step is for the model to output the person’s student ID number.
What is Team 5472?
The American Heritage Boca/Delray Stallion Robotics Team 5472 is our FRC Robotics Competition Team. Every year, we build a robot with capabilities determined by the FIRST Robotics Competition Game Setup. In past years, this has included building a robot to complete tasks such as stacking blocks, climbing, autonomously driving, placing items in target locations, etc.
What is the Security Robot?
The Security Robot is a continuous project between American Heritage School Boca/Delray students and LexisNexis. Currently, the robot is built and has driving capabilities. Our goals for this summer are to install a large PTZ camera, install a touchscreen/keyboard, build a charging station, add bumpers/obstacle avoidance sensors, mount/utilize a fingerprint and barcode scanner, continue developing license plate recognition capabilities, implement autonomous driving, utilize Alexa Voice Commands for user communication, and more.
Carina Wang is a rising junior (class of 2023)