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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"remotely piloted"”.
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Human and automatic control interaction with a remotely piloted vehicle
In this dissertation, we present results from a study on the performance of humans and automatic controllers in a general remote navigation task. The remote navigation task is defined as driving a vehicle with nonholonomic kinematic constraints around obstacles toward a goal. We conducted …
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Psychological Health Outcomes Within USAF Remotely Piloted Aircraft Support Career Fields
<p>Remotely piloted aircraft are now commonplace in modern warfare. Enlisted intelligence personnel in the U.S. Air Force (USAF) who support these activities have reported personal accounts of posttraumatic stress and fatigue, possibly due to viewing high-definition, full-motion-video, remote …
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Investigation of Small Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (sRPAS) to Human Head Impact
Small remotely piloted aircraft system (sRPAS) to ground human head impact could cause injuries to the public. Skull fractures and brain injuries have been observed in sRPAS-related impacts, which varied in angles, locations and velocities. This study developed a representative quadcopter sRPAS …
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The MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft : humans and machines in action
Remotely piloted aircraft and the people that control them are changing how the US military operates aircraft and those who fly, yet few know what "drone" operators actually do, why they do what they do, or how they shape and reflect remote air warfare and human-machine relationships. What do the …
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Utilizing Remotely Piloted Air Systems in the Delineation of Functional Land Management Zones
… of surficial soil organic carbon using a remotely piloted air system (RPAS); and 2) develop a method of management zone delineation that accounts for multiple soil functions. Remote sensing was found to be the most effective at estimating soil organic carbon (SOC) through the use of DSM. …
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Extending safety assessment methods for remotely piloted aircraft operations in the national airspace system
Remotely Piloted Aircraft operations are growing rapidly in the United States specifically for the Department of Defense to achieve training needs. To ensure the safety of the National Airspace System is maintained to a high standard, Remotely Piloted Aircraft operations are being assessed on a …
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Determining estuarine seagrass density measures from low altitude multispectral imagery flown by remotely piloted aircraft
… across all levels of seagrass density. Remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) can operate close to the ground under precise flight control enabling repeated surveys in high detail with accurate revisit-positioning. This study evaluates a method for assessing intertidal estuarine seagrass …
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Development of a Remotely-Piloted Vehicle Platform to Support Implementation, Verification, and Validation of Pilot Control Systems
… for Pilot Induced Oscillations (PIOs). A remotely-piloted vehicle presented in this thesis consists of an RC aircraft modified to be flown from a ground station cockpit. The unmanned aerial system has a high-speed on-board processing system capable of simulating different conditions during …
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The Effects of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Command and Control Latency during Within-Visual-Range Air-To-Air Combat
<p>The type of military missions conducted by remotely piloted aircraft continues to expand into all facets of operations including air-to-air combat. While future within-visual-range air-to-air combat will be piloted by artificial intelligence, remotely piloted aircraft will likely first see …
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Development and Implementation of a Flight Test Program for a Geometrically Scaled Joined Wing SensorCraft Remotely Piloted Vehicle
… a Geometrically Scaled Joined Wing SensorCraft Remotely Piloted Vehicle from concept through successful flight test. The design methodology utilized in the development of the test program is presented, along with the extensive formal review process required for the approval of the test plan by …
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The development of a remotely piloted vehicle (RPV) with real-time position measurement (RtPM) for hazardous waste site characterization
… of this work were to design and construct a remotely piloted robotic system which could enter a simulated hazardous waste site and perform some aspect of initial characterization sampling, and to perform a feasibility study on the use of the SPSi system for outdoor mobile robot tracking. A …
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Design and Evaluation of Geometric Nonlinearities using Joined-Wing SensorCraft Flight Test Article
… the successful flight of a Geometrically Scaled Remotely Piloted Vehicle. The work presented in this thesis involves evaluation of an aeroelastically tuned design through ground-based experimentation. The result of these experimental investigations has led to the conclusion that a full redesign …
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Design of a Scaled Flight Test Vehicle Including Linear Aeroelastic Effects
… model, and a 1/9th span geometrically scaled remotely piloted vehicle (RPV) serves as the initial design point. The aeroelastic response of the final design is verified against the response of the full-scale model. Reasonable agreement is seen in both aeroelastic damping and frequency for a …
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Design methodologies and prototyping of a starter-geenrator for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for civil applications
… Aerial Vehicle, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), ROA (Remotely Operated Aircraft), and RPV (Remotely Piloted Vehicle), [1]. UAVs are to be understood as uninhabited and reusable motorized aerial vehicles [2], which are remotely controlled, semi-autonomous, autonomous, or have a combination of these …
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Macro Fiber Composite Actuated Unmanned Air Vehicles: Design, Development, and Testing
… implemented on a 0.76 m wingspan aircraft. The remotely piloted experimental vehicle was flown using two MFC patches in an elevator/aileron (elevon) configuration. Preliminary testing has proven the stability and control of the design. Flight tests were performed to quantify roll control using …
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Antenas para sistema de comunicação de longa distância de aeronaves remotamente pilotadas
… As a low cost solution for the operation, the remotely piloted aircraft (RPAs) have shown to be efficient for operations of this type, however, the short range of their conventional remote controls is a limiting factor for their employment in large distances. This paper proposes …
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Aerodynamic Modeling in Nonlinear Regions, including Stall Spins, for Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aircraft from Experimental Flight Data
… test techniques developed specifically for remotely piloted aircraft. Then, highly maneuverable unmanned aircraft can be employed to their greatest potential in a safe manner using advanced control laws. In this dissertation, novel techniques are used to identify nonlinear, coupled, …
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Enabling Technologies for Joint Communication and Sensing in Aviation
… are analyzed in an application example employing remotely-piloted aircraft systems.
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Killing at a Distance in a Post-Panoptic Society
… My analysis will address the question: how are remotely piloted aircrafts connecting distance and humanity in asymmetric warfare? I argue that drones are unlike any other weapon produced thus far because they introduce a completely new way to fight wars at a distance; therefore, a new …
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