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 implements several methods for performing vision-based formation flight control of multiple aircraft in the presence of obstacles. No information is communicated between aircraft, and only passive 2-D ...

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 ...

This paper discusses estimation and guidance strategies for vision-based target tracking. Specific applications include formation control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and air-to-air refueling. We assume that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...