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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"HexaCopter"”.
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Development of Tools for Conceptual Design of a Wildland Firefighting UAV
… aid the preliminary design of an octocopter, hexacopter, and quadcopter. The FE tool was designed around an octocopter's geometry, which leads to complications in generating FE models for a hexacopter or quadcopter. Recommendations were made for altering the FE tool to account for hexacopters …
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Thesis Report for the Design and Qualification of a Modular Scientific Drone
… designed to operate as either a quadcopter or hexacopter for greater accessibility and versatility, with an operational flight time in the range of 15 to 20 minutes and the ability to lift a 5kg payload. The design used readily available components to configure the powertrain, command and …
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Path Planning for a UAV in an Agricultural Environment to Tour and Cover Multiple Neighborhoods
… Hardware experiments are performed on a spraying hexacopter, using the TSP - Greedy approach. Unique system characteristics are studied to make conclusions about stability of the platform. Future directions are identified to improve both software and hardware performance.
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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multirotor Flight Control: A Comparative Study of Sim-to-Real Training and Real-World Performance
… vehicle morphologies, including quadcopter, hexacopter, and coaxial octocopter platforms. In addition, the process was successfully extended to an omnidirectional multi-rotor vehicle (OMV). For the OMV, a learned Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) controller outperformed both adaptive and PID-based …
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Measurement and Prediction of Rotor Noise Sources for sUAS in Outdoor and Laboratory Environments
… analysis of the acoustic footprint of a hexacopter in hover and low speed forward flight, comparison of aerodynamic performance and noise of eVTOL rotors operating in multiple facilities, and analysis of the noise associated with an outrunner brushless DC motor. Empirical and low-order …
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Design and Evaluation of a Fixed-Pitch Multirotor UAV with a Nonlinear Control Strategy
The use and practical applications of small UAV systems has continually grown in the past several years in both the public and private sectors. These UAV systems are used for not only defensive purposes, but for commercial applications such as exterior bridge and home inspections, wildlife/wildfire …