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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Micro aerial vehicle"”.
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Collaborative Micro Aerial Vehicle exploration of outdoor environments
… Recent efforts have led to the creation of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs), a class of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), which are small and have autonomous capabilities. At most a few feet in size, a MAV can hover in place, perform Vertical Take-Off and Landing, and easily rotate with a small …
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Design and manufacturing of a VTOL Micro Aerial Vehicle
… The opportunity now exists to develop miniature aerial vehicles capable of autonomous flight. Such vehicles could perform reconnaissance missions in environments that are unsafe to humans. Their small size minimizes their chance of being detected in hostile areas and allows them mobility not …
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DESIGN AND CONTROL OF A HUMMINGBIRD-SIZE FLAPPING WING MICRO AERIAL VEHICLE
… flapping flight presents an extraordinary aerial locomotion strategy perfected at small size scales. Flapping Wing Micro Aerial Vehicles (FWMAVs) hold great promise in bridging the performance gap between engineered flying vehicles and their natural counterparts. They are perfect candidates …
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A control architecture and human interface for agile, reconfigurable micro aerial vehicle formations
… considers the problem of controlling a group of micro aerial vehicles for agile maneuvering cooperatively, or distributively. We first introduce the background and motivation for micro aerial vehicles, especially for the popular multi-rotor aerial vehicle platform. Then, we discuss the dynamics …
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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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Development and evaluation of a collision avoidance system for supervisory control of a micro aerial vehicle
… technological advances have enabled Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) to become increasingly prevalent in a variety of domains. From military surveillance to disaster relief to search-and-rescue tasks, these systems have the capacity to assist in difficult or …
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An Approach to Semi-Autonomous Indoor Drone System: Software Architecture and Integration Testing
… fed to an embedded system through MAVLink (Micro Aerial Vehicle Link) network communication protocol. In this study, we also implemented a modular architecture which enables scalable integration of sensor modules into the Drone System to streamline the process of development, deployment, …
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System Design Methodology and Implementation of Micro Aerial Vehicles
… design and implementation process of micro aerial vehicle (MAV) systems, which are suitable for indoor missions such as search and rescue, and surveillance. The proposed MAVs seek a breakthrough in the current unmanned aircraft market, by having the ability of full mission autonomous …
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Deploying fast object detection for micro aerial vehicles
… into an object detection pipeline for a micro aerial vehicle (MAV). This work was done as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) program with the goal of creating an autonomous MAV that could explore and map an unknown urban …
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Design, Simulation, and Wind Tunnel Verication of a Morphing Airfoil
… materials to control the flight dynamics of a Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) has numerous benefits over traditional servomechanisms. Under study is wing morphing achieved through the use of piezoelectric Macro Fiber Composites (MFCs). These devices exhibit low power draw but excellent bandwidth …
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Control and estimation strategies for autonomous MAV landing on a moving platform in turbulent wind conditions
Micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) are increasing in popularity both for recreational and commercial purposes. In particular, autonomous MAVs are promising in the field of drone delivery due to their scalability, deployability, and low cost compared to traditional ground delivery. Hybrid systems, which …
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Biologically inspired attitude control of robotic systems using center of gravity reallocation
… bats in their landing maneuvers with a micro aerial vehicle (MAV) called Allice. Allice is capable of adjusting the position of its center of gravity (CG) with respect to the center of pressure (CP) using nonlinear closed-loop feedback. In the case of flying machines, CoM reallocation …
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Three tier unmanned aerial vehicle : strategic roles and mechanical design
… design elements of a three-tier unmanned aerial vehicle prototype being developed by the MIT/Draper Technology Partnership. This parent-child concept incorporates three classes of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). A parent vehicle of 3.4-meter wingspan is maintained at the mother level …
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Experimental and computational analysis for insect inspired flapping wing micro air vehicles
… the aim of one day developing a Flapping Wing Micro Aerial Vehicle (FWMAV) which can replicate the flight of nature's creatures. These types of autonomous robotic vehicles can fulfil tasks which are not suitable for manned vehicles especially when risks to human safety are present. Flight …
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Packaging of the MIT Microengine
The MIT Microengine Project is an on-going effort to build a MEMS based gas turbine engine and turbo generator. This thesis covers the development and testing of the packaging needed for the microengine and related devices. The packaging of the microengine includes the fluidic, electrical, and …
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Neuroinspired control strategies with applications to flapping flight
… approach. Further, we present experimental micro aerial vehicle (MAV) research with low-frequency flapping and articulated wing gliding. The importance of phase difference control via an abstract mathematical model of central pattern generators is confirmed with a robotic bat on a 3-DOF …
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Non-Line-of-Sight localisation of a sound source
… (ToAs) of first-arrival signals received by microphones and thus reduce the positioning accuracy. The primary issue of the thesis is to precisely estimate and correct the NLoS errors by modelling the received first-arrival signals. The first proposed technique uses multiple on-ground …