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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"On-board Sensor"”.
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Vehicle health monitoring using stochastic constraint suspension
Autonomous vehicle health monitoring (VHM) has been identified as a high priority technology for future space exploration in NASA's 2012 technology roadmap. Traditional VHM approaches are often designed for a specific application and are unable to detect and isolate a wide variety of faults. …
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An Investigation Into the Detection and Analysis of Selected Landfills Within Central and Southwest Missouri Using Remotely Sensed Data
This research concerns the detection and analysis of landfills within a selected Landsat Five scene that covers parts of central and southwest Missouri. Detecting and analyzing landfills over relatively large areas to assess vegetative growth and vigor are of vital interest to county, state and …
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Magnetic Signature Estimation Using Neural Networks
… objects in earth's magnetic field cause distortion in the surrounding ambient field. This distortion is a function of the object's material properties and geometry, and is known as the magnetic signature. As a precursor to first principle modeling of the phenomenon and a proof of concept, the …
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Multi-level Control Architecture and Energy Efficient Docking for Cooperative Unmanned Air Vehicles
… terms of aerodynamic performance, endurance, autonomy, and the capability of on-board sensor packages. UAVs are now a vital part of both military actions and scientific research efforts. One of the newest classes of UAV is the high altitude long endurance or HALE UAV. This thesis considers the …
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Distributed approaches for coverage missions with multiple heterogeneous UAVs for coastal areas.
This Thesis focuses on a high-level framework proposal for heterogeneous aerial, fixed wing teams of robots, which operate in complex coastal areas. Recent advances in the computational capabilities of modern processors along with the decrement of small scale aerial platform manufacturing costs, …
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Powerline perching with a fixed-wing UAV
… and micro UAVs have enabled a number of new mission capabilities, including navigating in and around buildings and performing perch-and-stare surveillance. However, one of the primary limitations of these small vehicles is endurance, simply because they cannot carry sufficient power for long …
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A Diagnostic Technique for Particle Characterization Using Laser Light Extinction
Increased operations of aircraft, both commercial and military, in hostile desert environments have increased risks of micro-sized particle ingestion into engines. The probability of increased sand and dust ingestion results in increased life cycle costs, in addition to increased potential for …
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Identification of Tire Dynamics Based on Intelligent Tire
Sensor-embedded tires, known as intelligent tires, have been widely studied because they are believed to provide reliable and crucial information on tire-road contact characteristics e.g., slip, forces and deformation of tires. Vehicle control systems such as ABS and VSP (Vehicle Stability Program) …