A randomized motion-planning approach to providing guidance for helicopters with under-slung loads is presented. Rapidly-exploring Random Trees are adapted to plan trajectories for simplified helicopter-load models. Four ...

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 ...

This paper presents a brief history and description of capabilities of the Georgia Tech Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Research Facility, while extracting and summarizing many significant and applicable results produced in the ...

Autonomous exploration and mapping of environments is an important problem in robotics. Efficient exploration of structured environments requires that the robot utilize region-specific exploration strategies and coordinate ...

This paper describes the development of a proposed framework of metrics for the evaluation of the performance of aircraft guidance systems. The methodologies and metrics developed remain generally agnostic to whether or ...