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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"UAV Control"”.
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A Collection of Computer Vision Algorithms Capable of Detecting Linear Infrastructure for the Purpose of UAV Control
One of the major application areas for UAVs is the automated traversing and inspection of infrastructure. Much of this infrastructure is linear, such as roads, pipelines, rivers, and railroads. Rather than hard coding all of the GPS coordinates along these linear components into a flight plan for …
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The Integration Of Audio Into Multimodal Interfaces: Guidelines And Applications Of Integrating Speech, Earcons, Auditory Icons, and Spatial Audio (SEAS)
… when conducting Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) control tasks. The results demonstrate that SEAS cues significantly enhance human performance on UAV control tasks, particularly response accuracy and reaction time on a secondary monitoring task. The results suggest that SEAS cues may be …
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UAV Formation Flight Utilizing a Low Cost, Open Source Configuration
<p>The control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a swarm or cooperative team scenario has been a topic of great interest for well over a decade, growing steadily with the advancements in UAV technologies. In the academic community, a majority of the studies conducted rely on simulation …
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Flight Testing Small, Electric Powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
… are developed to find the drag polar for small UAVs powered by electric motors with fixed-pitch propellers. Wind tunnel testing was used to characterize the propeller-motor efficiency. The drag polar was constructed using data from flight tests. The proposed methods were implemented for a small …
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Assessing multi-rotor UAV controllability in low altitude fine-scale wind fields
… a means of assessing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) control in various environments using control margin. The metric gives an instantaneous measure of control authority and is defined by dividing required torque by maximum available torque. Required torque is the sum total of torque developed by …
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SHVIL, PLANWELL, & FLYING FRUSTUM: Spatial Interaction With 3D Physical Maps
… planning, and remote unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) control. We present our research, encompassing three prototypes we designed and implemented: Shvil, an augmented reality interface for collaborative terrain navigation; PlanWell, a spatial user interface for collaborative petroleum well …
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Design and Simulation of a Model Reference Adaptive Control System Employing Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space for Enhanced Flight Control of a Quadcopter
… spaces (RKHSs) into the model reference adaptive control (MRAC) framework to enhance the control systems of quadcopters. Traditional MRAC systems, while robust under predictable conditions, can struggle with the dynamic uncertainties typical in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations such as wind …
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ADAPTIVE CONTROL DESIGN FOR QUADROTORS
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) control has become a very important point of scientific study. The control design challenges of a UAV make it one of the most researched areas in modern control applications. This thesis specifically chooses the Quadrotor as the UAV platform. Considering the quadrotor …
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Soft Aerial Manipulation
… and grasping with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) currently require accurate positioning and are often executed at reduced speed to ensure successful grasps. This is because modern aerial manipulation platforms employ rigid manipulators with few degrees of freedom, limiting their capability …
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Safe navigation and motion coordination control strategies for unmanned aerial vehicles
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become very popular for many military and civilian applications including in agriculture, construction, mining, environmental monitoring, etc. A desirable feature for UAVs is the ability to navigate and perform tasks autonomously with least human interaction. …
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Simulatore di interfaccia uomo-macchina per i controllo di UAV
… of the most important causes of failures of the UAVs (Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle) missions are related to the low level of decisional autonomy of vehicles and to the man machine interface. Therefore, a relevant issue is to design a display/controls architecture which allows the efficient …
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) navigation and image processing techniques for underground tunnel infrastructure assessment
… vehicles or robotics, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) emerge as a cost-effective and adaptive monitoring tool, particularly suited for the access to shafts and caverns. However, there are challenges in implementing UAV-based inspection for tunnels, including GPS-denied environments, complex …
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Stabilization and Control of a Quad-Rotor Micro-UAV Using Vision Sensors
Quad-rotor micro-UAVs have become an important tool in the field of indoor UAV research. Indoor flight poses problems not experienced in outdoor applications. The ability to be location- and movement-aware is paramount because of the close proximity of obstacles (walls, doorways, desks). The …
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Novel Technology Perspectives for Urban Air Mobility Applications
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Real-Time Implementation of Vision Algorithm for Control, Stabilization, and Target Tracking for a Hovering Micro-UAV
… experimental results of completely autonomous control of a hovering micro-UAV using a complete on-board vision system. The on-board vision and control system is composed of a Helios FPGA board, an Autonomous Vehicle Toolkit daughterboard, and a Kestrel Autopilot. The resulting platform is …