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 ...

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 ...

As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are considered for a wider variety of military and commercial applications, the ability to navigate autonomously in unknown and hazardous environments is increasingly vital to the ...

This paper presents several classes of control laws for steering an agent, that is, an aerial or marine vehicle, in the presence of a both temporally and spatially varying drift field induced by local winds/currents. The ...

The navigation of a small unmanned aerial vehicle is challenging due to a large influence of wind to its kinematics. When the kinematic model is reduced to two dimensions, it has the form of the Dubins kinematic vehicle ...

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 ...

A novel approach to providing guidance for helicopters with under-slung loads is presented. Rapidly-exploring Ran- dom Trees are adapted to plan trajectories for simplified helicopter-load models. The algorithm is presented ...

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 ...