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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Aerial Surveillance"”.
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System design for a rapid response autonomous aerial surveillance vehicle
… was chosen. The selected project, the Wide Area Surveillance Projectile (WASP), called for the development of a small, unmanned aerial vehicle which could be launched from an artillery gun to provide a rapid-response, time-critical reconnaissance capability for small military units or selected …
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MIT/DRAPER Technology Development Partnership Program : systems, aerodeceleration, and structural design of a high-G, rapid response, deployable autonomous aerial surveillance vehicle
… and reviews with Draper. the Wide Area Surveillance Projectile (WASP) was chosen as the lead technology demonstration project. The WASP is a gun-launched projectile in the 5"/54 NAVY to 155 mm ARMY class of munitions that transforms into a powered flight vehicle after traveling a …
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Is Wide-Area Persistent Surveillance by State and Local Governments Constitutional?
… following question: “Can wide-area persistent surveillance (WAPS) developed by the United States military and employed abroad as a tool in the Global War on Terror be employed domestically as a law enforcement tool without violating the US Constitution’s Fourth Amendment?” The most likely and …
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RF Fingerprinting Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
<p>As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) continue to become more readily available, their use in civil, military, and commercial applications is growing significantly. From aerial surveillance to search-and-rescue to package delivery the use cases of UAVs are accelerating. This accelerating popularity …
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The Effects of Elasticity in the Foundation on the Flutter of a Metallic High Aspect Ratio Wing
… in a High- Altitude Long-Endurance Uninhabited Aerial Surveillance Vehicle (HALE USAV).</p> <p>The problem is studied using a simplified aerodynamic loading based on thin-airfoil theory, which is then combined with a Lagrangian formulation to solve the system as stationary. The wing has no …
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Person detection : unmanned system and small sensor applications
… distinct domains: A) Leave-behind sensing and B) Aerial surveillance. Using novel image sets that are significantly more realistic and difficult than standard datasets, a variety of tests are conducted to compare the algorithms in terms of classification success rate. Dalal and Triggs' Histogram …
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Nonlinear Controller Design for UAVs with Time-Varying Aerodynamic Uncertainties
<p>Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are here and they are here to stay. Unmanned Aviation has expanded significantly in recent years and research and development in the field of navigation and control have advanced beyond expectations. UAVs are currently being used for defense programs around the …
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Planning under uncertainty and constraints for teams of autonomous agents
… would not have immediately available (e.g., aerial surveillance). However, for unmanned vehicles to work seamlessly and unintrusively with human responders, a high degree of autonomy and planning is necessary. In particular, the unmanned vehicles should be able to account for the dynamic …
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A Shield in the Sky: The Vertical Geopolitics of Transcontinental Air Defense
Traditional military descriptions of conflict tend to focus on the movement of soldiers and armies across battlefields. When the airplane emerged, it forced military theorists to contend with a new, vertical, dimension of conflict. In America, the United States Air Force assumed an important role …