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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"unmanned vehicle"”.
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Performance optimization for unmanned vehicle systems
Technological advances in the area of unmanned vehicles are opening new possibilities for creating teams of vehicles performing complex missions with some degree of autonomy. Perhaps the most spectacular example of these advances concerns the increasing deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) …
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Control architectures for heterogeneous fleets of unmanned vehicle systems
La robotica in campo avionico, da 20 anni fa fino ad oggi, ha avuto una crescita incredibile. Le ragioni sono diverse, ma sicuramente, la motivazione fondamentale è data dallo sviluppo di sensori MEMS e microcontrollori sempre più economici e affidabili. Per quanto riguarda le caratteristiche …
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Modeling human supervisory control in heterogeneous unmanned vehicle systems
… operations, operator supervisory control of Unmanned Vehicle (UV) teams is likely to be a focal point of future research and development. Due to requirements for interoperability among UVs of varying attributes, heterogeneity in vehicle capabilities and tasks is likely to exist in future UV …
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Dynamic human-computer collaboration in real-time unmanned vehicle scheduling
… have made it possible to invert the operator-to-vehicle ratio so that a single operator can control multiple heterogeneous Unmanned Vehicles (UVs). This autonomy will reduce the need for the operator to manually control each vehicle, enabling the operator to focus on higher-level goal setting and …
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Software Simulation of an Unmanned Vehicle Performing Relative Spacecraft Orbits
The challenge of sensing relative motion between vehicles is an important subject in the engineering field in recent years. The associated applications range from spacecraft rendezvous and docking to autonomous ground vehicle operations. The focus of this thesis is to develop the simulation tools …
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Design of a Micro Wireless Instrumented Payload for Unmanned Vehicle Testing
The testing of unmanned vehicles presents a need for an independent device capable of accurately collecting position and orientation data. While commercial-off-the-shelf components could be pieced together to sense and record this information, this is an expensive, large, and heavy solution, not …
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Design and Evaluation of a Mobile Instrumentation Platform for Unmanned Vehicle Testing
Unmanned vehicle systems are becoming more important in the future of the military and in commercial applications. These systems are used to prevent humans from entering dangerous situations or to automate dull tasks. In order to facilitate rapid development of these systems, testing procedures and …
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Evaluating safety protocols for manned-unmanned environments through agent-based simulation
… sufficiently to make the integration of unmanned and autonomous vehicles systems into human-centered civilian environments a realistic near-term goal. In these systems, such as the national highway system, mining operations, and manufacturing operations, unmanned and autonomous systems …
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Flight Testing Small UAVs for Aerodynamic Parameter Estimation
… data acquisition system was developed to aid unmanned vehicle designers in verifying the vehicle's design performance. The system is reconfigurable and allows the designer to choose the correct combination of complexity, risk, and cost for a given flight test. The designer can also reconfigure …
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Post Disaster Surveys
… or analysis. The use of a remotely controlled unmanned vehicle is a reliable, safe and cost effective substitute for assessing structures before and after seismic, terrorist, or other destructive events.
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The parent-child unmanned air vehicle concept study
The Parent Child Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (PCUAV) concept was developed within the context of the MIT Draper Technology Development Partnership Project. A desire at Draper Laboratory to build a fixed wing surveillance airplane to enhance the capabilities of its unmanned vehicle fleet initiated the …
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Hardware-Aided Privacy Protection and Cyber Defense for IoT
… a software vulnerability hidden in a smart vehicle may lead to a remote attack that subverts a driver's control of the vehicle. Our approach to the aforementioned challenges starts by understanding privacy leakage in the IoT era and follows with adding defense layers to the IoT system with …
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Radar Detection, Tracking and Identification for UAV Sense and Avoid Applications
<p>Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology have enabled wider access for the general public leading to more stringent flight regulations, such as the "line of sight" restriction, for hobbyists and commercial applications. Improving sensor technology for Sense And Avoid (SAA) systems is …
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A launch and recovery system for integrating unmanned ocean vehicles onto surface platforms
Unmanned vehicles (UxVs) are becoming more prevalent across all domains. As UxV technology improves and their operations become more essential to mission success, the challenge of integrating these vehicles onto current surface platforms becomes increasingly more important to solve. Surface ships …
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Technology for Designing the Steering Subsystem Component of an Autonomous Vehicle
Autonomous vehicles offer means to complete unsafe military operations without endangering the lives of soldiers. Such solutions have fueled many efforts towards designing autonomous, or unmanned, systems. Military and academic research efforts alike continue to focus on developing these systems. …
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Collaborative Tarrget Localization and Inspection Using a Heterogeneous Team of Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicle development is a rapidly growing field that has vast possibilities for both military and commercial applications. Removing people from dangerous tasks will save lives. Continued research is necessary in order to build these new technologies and mature those already established. …
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Effect of auditory peripheral displays on unmanned aerial vehicle operator performance
With advanced autonomy, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operations will likely be conducted by single operators controlling multiple UAVs. As operator attention is divided across multiple supervisory tasks, there is a need to support the operator's awareness of the state of the tasks for safe and …
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A*-Based Path Planning for an Unmanned Aerial and Ground Vehicle Team in a Radio Repeating Operation
… in order to plan effective response operations. Unmanned ground vehicles are well suited for this task but often require a strong communication link to a remote ground station to effectively relay information. When considering an obstacle-rich environment, non-line-of-sight conditions and naive …
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Development of a Next-generation Experimental Robotic Vehicle (NERV) that Supports Intelligent and Autonomous Systems Research
… the development of truly autonomous ground vehicles capable of performing complex navigation tasks. As a result, the demand for practical unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) systems has increased dramatically in recent years. Central to these developments is maturation of emerging mobile robotic …
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Path Planning for Unmanned Air and Ground Vehicles in Urban Environments
Unmanned vehicle systems, specifically unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), have become a popular research topic. This thesis discusses the potential of a UAV-UGV system used to track a human moving through complex urban terrain. This research focuses on path planning …
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