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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. ...
Georgia Tech Team Entry for the 2013 AUVSI International Aerial Robotics Competition
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-08)
Georgia Tech Team Entry for the 2012 AUVSI International Aerial Robotics Competition
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-08)
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 ...
Georgia Tech Team Entry for the 2011 AUVSI International Aerial Robotics Competition
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-08)
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) ...
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 ...
A Comprehensive Matrix of Unmanned Aerial Systems Requirements for Potential Applications within a Department of Transportation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014)
The continuous improvement in the
function and performance of Unmanned
Aerial Systems (UASs) promotes the need
for specific research to integrate this
leading edge technology in
to various applications across ...
Longitudinal Motion Planning for Slung-Loads Using Simplified Models and Rapidly-Exploring Random Trees
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-01)
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 ...
A Monocular Vision-aided Inertial Navigation System with Improved Numerical Stability
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-01)
This paper develops a monocular vision-aided inertial navigation system based on the factored extended Kalman filter (EKF) proposed by Bierman and Thornton. The simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm ...