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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Autonomous aerial vehicles"”.
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Computer Vision Applications for Autonomous Aerial Vehicles
<p>Undoubtedly, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have experienced a great leap forward over the last decade. It is not surprising anymore to see a UAV being used to accomplish a certain task, which was previously carried out by humans or a former technology. The proliferation of special vision …
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Low altitude threat evasive trajectory generation for autonomous aerial vehicles
In recent years, high altitude unmanned aerial vehicles have been used to great success in combat operations, providing both reconnaissance as well as weapon launch platforms for time critical targets. Interest is now growing in extending autonomous vehicle operation to the low altitude regime. …
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Risk-Aware Human-In-The-Loop Multi-Robot Path Planning for Lost Person Search and Rescue
We introduce a framework that would enable using autonomous aerial vehicles in search and rescue scenarios associated with missing person incidents to assist human searchers. We formulate a lost person behavior model and a human searcher model informed by data collected from past search missions. …
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Efficient nearest-neighbor search algorithms for sub-Riemannian geometries
… of commercial interest in self-driving cars and autonomous aerial vehicles. Among the leading algorithms to tackle the problem are sampling-based planners, such as Probabilistic Road Maps (PRMs), Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRTs) and a large number of variants thereof. In this thesis, we …
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Flight Vehicle Control and Aerobiological Sampling Applications
Aerobiological sampling using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is an exciting research field blending various scientific and engineering disciplines. The biological data collected using UAVs helps to better understand the atmospheric transport of microorganisms. Autopilot-equipped UAVs can …
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Target Locating in Unknown Environments Using Distributed Autonomous Coordination of Aerial Vehicles
The use of autonomous aerial vehicles (UAVs) to explore unknown environments is a growing field of research; of particular interest is locating a target that emits a signal within an unknown environment. Several physical processes produce scalar signals that attenuate with distance from their …
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Agile load transportation systems using aerial robots
… that can occur during load transport using aerial robots, i.e., small scale quadrotors. First, detailed models of such transportation system are derived. These models include nonlinear models of a quadrotor, a model of a quadrotor carrying a fixed load and a model of a quadrotor carrying a …
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Design of a Hybrid Micro Aerial Vehicle Concept with Multicopter and Vectored Thrust Modes of Flight
In recent years, the speed and agility of micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs) have been greatly improved by advances in embedded computing and control theory. Controllers utilizing techniques such as incremental nonlinear dynamic inversion have enabled tracking of aggressive trajectories and high rate …
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Effect of Time Pressure and Task Uncertainty on Human Operator Performance and Workload for Autonomous Aerial Vehicle Missions
… of time pressure and task uncertainty have on autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle operator task performance and workload. Thirty undergraduate students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University participated in this study. The primary task was image identification, and secondary tasks consisted of …
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Trust, Transparency, and Transport: The Impact of Privacy Protection on the Acceptance of Last-Mile Drone Delivery
… driven many companies to explore using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, to get packages to their final destination. Although UAVs have great potential to help increase efficiency in commercial package delivery, this comes at a potential cost to the privacy of people who intersect the …