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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Dynamic Soaring"”.
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Design and Flight-Path Simulation of a Dynamic-Soaring UAV
<p>We address the development of a dynamic-soaring capable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) optimized for long-duration flight with no on-board power consumption. The UAV’s aerodynamic properties are captured with the integration of variable fidelity aerodynamic analyses. In addition to this, a 6 …
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Development and Deployment of a Dynamic Soaring Capable UAV using Reinforcement Learning
<p>Dynamic soaring (DS) is a bio-inspired flight maneuver in which energy can be gained by flying through regions of vertical wind gradient such as the wind shear layer. With reinforcement learning (RL), a fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can be trained to perform DS maneuvers optimally for …
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Dynamic soaring beyond biomimetics: control of an albatross-inspired wind-powered system
… from horizontal winds in a maneuver called dynamic soaring, and travel impressive distance (5000 km/week) by "riding the winds". Accordingly, for albatrosses flight is barely more strenuous than rest. While thermal soaring, exploited by birds of prey and sports gliders, consists of simply …
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Remotely sensing motion: the use of multiple biologging technologies to detect fine-scale, at-sea behaviour of breeding seabirds in a variable Southern Ocean environment
… to extract roll angles of albatrosses during dynamic soaring flight. Animal body angles are normally extracted by using tri-axial accelerometer data, but their dynamic soaring flight mode inhibits the use of these methods. I show how magnetometer data are independent of dynamic movement and …
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Wind and Wake Sensing with UAV Formation Flight: System Development and Flight Testing
… fuel savings and longer duration flights through dynamic soaring or thermal soaring.;Wakes are an effect of the lift distribution across an aircraft's wing or tail. Wakes can cause substantial disturbances when multiple aircraft are moving through the same airspace. In fact, the perils from an …