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Adaptive Estimation and Control with Application to Vision-based Autonomous Formation Flight
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-05-17)
The role of vision as an additional sensing mechanism has received a lot of attention in recent years in the context of autonomous flight applications. Modern Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are equipped with vision sensors ...
Design and Development of a Low-Cost Test-Bed for Undergraduate Education in UAVs
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005)
This article describes the efforts undertaken at
the School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute
of Technology for the development of a low-cost Unmanned
Aerial Vehicle (UAV) test-bed for educational purposes. ...
Executive Decision Support: Single-Agent Control of Multiple UAVs
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05)
One challenge facing coordination and deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) today is the amount of human involvement needed to carry out a successful mission. Currently, control and coordination of UAVs typically ...
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 ...
Indoor Navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-08)
The ability for vehicles to navigate unknown environments is critical for autonomous
operation. Mapping of a vehicle's environment and self-localization within that environment are especially difficult for an Unmanned ...
Modelling and Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation for a Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-05)
Modeling and experimental identification results for a small unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) are presented. The numerical values of the aerodynamic derivatives are computed
via the Digital DATCOM software using the geometric ...
Optimal Multi-UAV Convoy Protection
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-04)
In this paper, we study time-optimal trajectories
for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to provide convoy protection
to a group of stationary ground vehicles. The UAVs
are modelled as Dubins vehicles flying at a constant ...
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 ...