The Eurasia team, which consisted of four Beihang students, one Indian student of MAI and three students of MIREA-Russian Technological University from Tajikistan, secured third place at the II Inter University Aviahackathon held at Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) from April 5 to 7, 2019.
The four Beihang competitors, Zhang Jing, Bai Chenhong, Gao Afei and Tang Zhongfu, are students from the School of Energy and Power Engineering and participants of the Beihang-MAI Dual Master’s Degree Program.
Members of the Eurasia team (Beihang students：Bai Chenhong (3rd L), Zhang Jing (4th L), Tang Zhongfu (2nd R), and Gao Afei (3rd R))
The team chose the case “Remote Control of Space Station Units Based on Gestures” from Phygitalism, which is a task to capture and recognize gestures, transmit data and visualize the results through programming. After determining each member’s responsibility, the team achieved gesture recognition by repeated experiments with machine learning algorithms, enabled data transmission between different software platforms by real-time image processing, and developed a GUI interface to exhibit the results with MATLAB. Working day and night for two days, they succeeded in rapid and accurate recognition and reproduction of gesture input. Besides, they also added the function to control the output of scales with gestures, bringing much pleasure to the competition.
In the process, Beihang students had in-depth exchanges and collaborated with their international friends, completing the task smoothly and exhibiting good abilities to program and carry out international cooperation. Their achievement also serves as precious experience for the degree program to develop in the future.
Zhang Jing and Gao Afei discussing questions
The Inter University Aviahackathon is the largest-scale IT competition in the aviation industry of Russia. It gathers representatives from universities, aviation manufacturers and IT businesses to study the core IT problems faced by the aviation industry and propose innovative solutions to them. The Aviahackathon 2019 attracted 250 students in 29 groups from 16 famous Russian universities, such as Lomonosov Moscow State University and Bauman Moscow State Technical University.
Group discussion
(All the pictures come from the official website of MAI)
Reported by Wang Lingpei
Reviewed by Lyu Ying
Edited by Jia Aiping
Translated by Li Mingzhu
