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Aerodynamic modeling of a delta-wing UAV for model-based navigation
Jan Skaloud, Pasquale Longobardi
This study aims to identify an optimal, as well as practical, parametric structure for a delta-wing UAV aerodynamic model for the purpose of model-based navigation. We present a comprehensive procedure for characterizing the aerodynamics of this platform, ...
2024Microgravity induces overconfidence in perceptual decision-making
Davide Scaramuzza, Christian Pfeiffer, Leyla Loued-Khenissi
Does gravity affect decision-making? This question comes into sharp focus as plans for interplanetary human space missions solidify. In the framework of Bayesian brain theories, gravity encapsulates a strong prior, anchoring agents to a reference frame via ...
NATURE PORTFOLIO2023Reinforcement Learning for Outdoor Balloon Navigation: A Successful Controller for an Autonomous Balloon
Autonomous ballooning allows for energy-efficient long-range missions but introduces significant challenges for planning and control algorithms, due to their single degree of actuation: vertical rate control through either buoyancy or vertical thrust. Late ...
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023Flying in Private Mode: Understanding and Improving the Privacy ICAO Address Program
Location privacy of aircraft has recently gained attention as air traffic management was modernized using novel surveillance technologies. Business aviation circles and various military and government entities voiced serious concerns about automated and ub ...
AMER INST AERONAUTICS ASTRONAUTICS2021The Foldable Drone: A Morphing Quadrotor That Can Squeeze and Fly
Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Davide Scaramuzza
The recent advances in state estimation, perception, and navigation algorithms have significantly contributed to the ubiquitous use of quadrotors for inspection, mapping, and aerial imaging. To further increase the versatility of quadrotors, recent works i ...
2019Real-Time Optimizing Control of an Experimental Crosswind Power Kite
Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Sean Costello
The contribution of this article is to propose and experimentally validate an optimizing control strategy for power kites flying crosswind. The control strategy provides both path control (stability) and path optimization (efficiency). The path following p ...
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2018Crosswind Kite Control - A Benchmark Problem for Advanced Control and Dynamic Optimization
Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Sean Costello
This article presents a kite control and optimization problem intended as a benchmark problem for advanced control and optimization. We provide an entry point to this exciting renewable energy system for researchers in control and optimization methods look ...
Wiley-Blackwell2017Photogrammetric Mission Planner for RPAS
Jan Skaloud, Martin Rehak, Florian Gandor
This paper presents a development of an open-source flight planning tool for Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) that is dedicated to high-precision photogrammetric mapping. This tool contains planning functions that are usually available in professio ...
2015Performance analysis of jump-gliding locomotion for miniature robotics
Dario Floreano, Mirko Kovac, Jean-Christophe Zufferey
Recent work suggests that jumping locomotion in combination with a gliding phase can be used as an effective mobility principle in robotics. Compared to pure jumping without a gliding phase, the potential benefits of hybrid jump-gliding locomotion includes ...
Iop Publishing Ltd2015Analysis of CCN activity of Arctic aerosol and Canadian biomass burning during summer 2008
The NASA DC-8 aircraft characterized the aerosol properties, chemical composition, and cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) concentrations of the summertime Arctic during the 2008 NASA Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Sate ...
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