The ”semi-coaxial” multirotor configuration is presented including its advantages over the conventional coaxial rotor configuration. The semi-coaxial configuration retains the benefits of the coaxial configuration, and ...

This paper describes the details of a Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle capable of exploring cluttered indoor areas without relying on any external navigational aids. A Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithm ...

his paper describes the details of a Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle capable of exploring cluttered indoor areas without relying on any external navigational aids. An elaborate Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) ...

This paper describes a vision-based control architecture designed to enable autonomous landing on a moving platform. The landing trajectory is generated by using the receding-horizon differential dynamic programming (DDP), ...

This paper describes the target detection and tracking architecture used by the Georgia Tech Aerial Robotics team for the American Helicopter Society (AHS) Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) challenge. The vision system described ...

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 ...

General aviation (GA) aircraft are for the most part not equipped with situational awareness or alerting systems, namely in terms of traffic or terrain collision. This is largely due to lack of regulatory requirements, but ...

This paper presents the work and related research done in preparation for the American Helicopter Society (AHS) Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) Student Challenge. The described MAV operates without human interaction in search ...

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 ...