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A Compact Guidance, Navigation, and Control System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006-05)
The Flight Control System 20 (FCS20) is a compact, self-contained Guidance, Navigation,
and Control system that has recently been developed to enable advanced autonomous
behavior in a wide range of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ...
Methods for Localization and Mapping Using Vision and Inertial Sensors
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-08)
The problems of vision-based localization and mapping are currently highly active areas of research for
aerial systems. With a wealth of information available in each image, vision sensors allow vehicles to gather
data ...
Small Adaptive Flight Control Systems for UAVs Using FPGA/DSP Technology
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004-09)
Future small UAVs will require enhanced capabilities like seeing and avoiding obstacles,
tolerating unpredicted flight conditions, interfacing with payload sensors, tracking moving
targets, and cooperating with other ...
Modeling Urban Environments for Communication-Aware UAV Swarm Path Planning
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-08)
The presented work introduces a graph based approach to model urban (or otherwise
cluttered) environments for UAS utilization beyond line-of-sight as well as out of direct
R/F range of the operator's control station. ...
Design and Implementation of a Self-configuring Ad-hoc Network for Unmanned Aerial Systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-10)
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and unmanned aerial systems (UAS) as such in
general, need wireless networks in order to communicate. UAS are very flexible and hence
allow for a wide range of missions by means of utilizing ...
UAS Reference Scenarios for MANET Development
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-08)
After autonomous flight for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has been accomplished,
research was stipulated to look into application related challenges in connection with Unmanned
Aerial Systems (UAS). As one possible ...
Guidance, Navigation, Control, and Operator Interfaces for Small Rapid Response Unmanned Helicopters
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-04)
This paper focuses on the development of small rapid response reconnaissance unmanned
helicopters (1 to 3 kg, electric), for use by the military in urban areas and by civilian first
responders, in terms of system ...
Flight Test Validation of a Neural Network based Long Term Learning Adaptive Flight Controller
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-08)
The purpose of this paper is to present and analyze flight test results of a Long Term
Learning Adaptive Flight Controller implemented on a rotorcraft and a fixed wing
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. The adaptive control ...
6-DOF Nonlinear Simulation of Vision-based Formation Flight
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005-08)
This paper presents an adaptive guidance and control law algorithm for implementation
on a pair of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in a 6 DOF leader-follower formation flight
simulation. The objective of the simulation ...
Development and Test of Highly Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004-12)
This paper describes the design, development, and testing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) with highly automated search capabilities. Here, systems are able to respond on their own in the presence of considerable uncertainty ...