Senior Design Team sdmay19-08 • IC Chip: Automated Clay Target Scoring System

About the Project

Our team is working to create a low-cost, fully-automated scoring system for clay target shooting sports, primarily skeet. The system consists of two parts: a small, portable device (Houston) that a user can physically bring onto a skeet shooting field, and a mobile application (Gemineye) a user can use to challenge the target classifications and keep track of a shooting squad's scores.

Houston will be a stand-alone physical device capable of producing its own WiFi signal for a mobile device to connect to. The physical device will not use an outside power source and will also be equipped with a camera lens. Our team has integrated machine learning and computer vision into the hardware package so that clay targets can be tracked and classified as dead, loss with attempt, or loss without attempt.

Gemineye will be an Android application for use on consumer-grade devices, such as tablets and smart phones. This mobile application, once the mobile device has connected to the ground station, will allow users to create a shooting squad and start a shooting session. With each "Pull!" command, Houston will track the clay pigeon, recording the window before, during, and after the clay pigeon was shot at. The recording and classification will be sent to Gemineye, where users can confirm or challenge Houston's target classification. Upon classification challenge, users will review the video footage before manually overriding or accepting the ground station's classification.

Dr. Duwe shooting clay targets at September data collection.