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Photogrammetric 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 ...

2015

Run-to-Run Disturbance Rejection for Feedforward Path Following of an Adaptively Controlled Unmanned Helicopter

Timm Faulwasser

We present a scheme for run-to-run disturbance rejection in optimization-based feedforward path following of a remotely piloted aircraft system (RPAS). The proposed scheme is based on the inter-run estimation of unknown disturbances, such as wind forces an ...

2015

High-Precision Geomonitoring using Micro Aerial Vehicles

Jan Skaloud, Martin Rehak, Yosef Akhtman

This paper demonstrates the potential of employment of small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (mUAS) for environmental research applications and the research of natural waterway systems in particular. Specifically, we describe the recent advances in the field of ...

2014

Detection of Aircrafts on a Collision Course using Spatio-Temporal HOG

Pascal Fua, Vincent Lepetit, Artem Rozantsev, Christos Marios Christoudias

We have developed a method for the detection of both generic flight neighbouring aircrafts and those on a collision course. Our approach employs a sliding window linear Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier with a Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) fe ...

2013

A UAV Motor Denoising Technique to Improve Localization of Surrounding Noisy Aircrafts: Proof of Concept for Anti-Collision Systems

Hervé Lissek, Xavier Falourd, Patrick Marmaroli

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become very affordable and small in recent years, and are increasingly used in a wide range of monitoring and surveillance applications. A major problem when operating with swarm of UAVs is the risk of mid-air collision ...

2012

Model Predictive Control for Gust Load Alleviation

Timm Faulwasser, Michael Köpf

For economical and ecological reasons aircraft are required to become more efficient by reducing fuel consumption and CO

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emissions. One way to achieve these objectives is to decrease the weight of the aircraft structure. The reduction is, however, limi ...

2012

A new collision warning system for lead vehicles in rear-end collisions

Alcherio Martinoli, Sven Adrian Gowal, Adrian Cabrera

Collision Warning Systems (CWS) are safety sys- tems designed to warn the driver about an imminent collision. A CWS monitors the dynamic state of the traffic in real- time by processing information from various proprioceptive and exteroceptive sensors. It ...

Ieee2012

Vision-Based Navigation in Autonomous Close Proximity Operations Using Neural Networks

Seyed Mohammad Khansari Zadeh

Tight unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) autonomous missions such as formation flight (FF) and aerial refueling (AR) require an active controller that works in conjunction with a precise sensor that is able to identify an in-front aircraft and to estimate its r ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Dealing with Mid-Air Collisions in Dense Collective Aerial Systems

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Severin Leven

The idea of creating collective aerial systems is appealing because several rather simple flying vehicles could join forces to cover a large area in little time in applications such as monitoring, mapping, search and rescue, or airborne communication relay ...

John Wiley & Sons2011

Autonomous flight at low altitude with vision-based collision avoidance and GPS-based path following

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Antoine Beyeler

The ability to fly at low altitude while actively avoiding collisions with the terrain and other objects is a great challenge for small unmanned aircraft. This paper builds on top of a control strategy called optiPilot whereby a series of optic-flow detect ...

IEEE2010

Autonomous flight at low altitude using light sensors and little computational power

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Photogrammetric Mission Planner for RPAS

Run-to-Run Disturbance Rejection for Feedforward Path Following of an Adaptively Controlled Unmanned Helicopter

High-Precision Geomonitoring using Micro Aerial Vehicles

Detection of Aircrafts on a Collision Course using Spatio-Temporal HOG

A UAV Motor Denoising Technique to Improve Localization of Surrounding Noisy Aircrafts: Proof of Concept for Anti-Collision Systems

Model Predictive Control for Gust Load Alleviation

A new collision warning system for lead vehicles in rear-end collisions

Vision-Based Navigation in Autonomous Close Proximity Operations Using Neural Networks

Dealing with Mid-Air Collisions in Dense Collective Aerial Systems

Autonomous flight at low altitude with vision-based collision avoidance and GPS-based path following

High-Precision Geomonitoring using Micro Aerial Vehicles

A UAV Motor Denoising Technique to Improve Localization of Surrounding Noisy Aircrafts: Proof of Concept for Anti-Collision Systems

Photogrammetric Mission Planner for RPAS

Run-to-Run Disturbance Rejection for Feedforward Path Following of an Adaptively Controlled Unmanned Helicopter

Detection of Aircrafts on a Collision Course using Spatio-Temporal HOG

A new collision warning system for lead vehicles in rear-end collisions

Model Predictive Control for Gust Load Alleviation

Dealing with Mid-Air Collisions in Dense Collective Aerial Systems

Vision-Based Navigation in Autonomous Close Proximity Operations Using Neural Networks

Autonomous flight at low altitude with vision-based collision avoidance and GPS-based path following