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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Autonomous helicopter"”.
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Electronics design for an autonomous helicopter
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
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A mapping system for an autonomous helicopter
… years. I would like to thank the members of the helicopter team, who have greatly influenced my development as an engineer: Paul Debitetto, Christian Trott, Bob Butler, Long Phan, Mike Piedmonte, and Anthony Lorusso. Special thanks goes to Paul Debitetto for his thoughtful critiquing and …
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Tethered Payload Control from an Autonomous Helicopter
… and support a tethered ground robot from an autonomous helicopter. A winch is designed and built. Electrical hardware for power distribution and control are designed. Several applied controls problems are investigated. A control architecture is established and low level controllers are …
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Real-time embedded sensor processing for an autonomous helicopter
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.
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Control visual de un vehiculo aereo autonomo usando deteccion y seguimiento de caracterısticas en espacios exteriores
… goal of this thesis is to build vision-guided autonomous flying robots. Tasks like feature detection, target tracking, obstacle avoidance using vision sensors allows such robots to serve as intelligent eyes-in-the-sky suitable for numerous applications including law enforcement, search and …
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Experiments in real time path planning for a small unmanned helicopter using mixed integer linear programming
… and actual flight experiments with the MIT autonomous helicopter platform. The experimental platform mechanical hardware, avionics and software architecture are described. Mixed Integer Linear Programming formulations for guidance experiments in obstacle avoidance and threat evasion are …
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Underslung Payload Tension Control from an Autonomous Unmanned Helicopter
… deployment of a unmanned ground vehicle from an autonomous helicopter is designed and tested in this thesis. The physical hardware which the controller will run on is detailed. The plant model and underlying controllers are derived and modeled. The tension controller algorithm is selected, …
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Applied fast maneuvering using a hybrid controller
Guidance and control of autonomous vehicles is a difficult and often calculation-intensive process. Current control approaches limit the functionality of autonomous vehicles. The approach applied in this thesis is to use a discrete-state model of the vehicle dynamics to build a hybrid automaton. By …
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Autonomous Localization of 1/R² Sources Using an Aerial Platform
… and rescue. To this end, this thesis provides autonomous localization and mapping tools for 1/R² sources. A "1/R²" source is one in which the received intensity of the source is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source. An autonomous localization algorithm is …
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Behavioral representation of military tactics for single-vehicle autonomous rotorcraft via statecharts
… aerospace companies have developed unmanned helicopters suitable for integration into military operations as reconnaissance platforms. These rotorcraft, however, require ground-based human controllers varying in number based on the size and complexity of the system controlled. The automation …
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Combining local and global optimization for planning and control in information space
… of a planar car and 3D simulation of an autonomous helicopter.
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An Integrated Platform to Increase the Range/Endurance of Unmanned Helicopters
<p>Class I (kg) autonomous helicopters are becoming increasingly popular for a wide range of non-military applications such as, surveillance, reconnaissance, traffic monitoring, emergency response, agricultural spraying, and many other "eye in the sky" missions. However, an efficient …
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Semi-conditional planners for efficient planning under uncertainty with macro-actions
… on target-tracking applications for an actual autonomous helicopter, highlighting the practical potential for planning in real-world, long-horizon, partially observable domains.